Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9781350160309
Note:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introductio -- the mid-century celluloid museum STEVEN JACOBS AND DIMITRIOS LATSIS -- Pre-war developments -- Post-war reconstruction and cultural organizations -- Major figures in Europe: Emmer, Storck, Resnais -- Education and research -- The art documentary as art -- Camera and canvas: documentaries on painting -- Key documentaries on sculpture -- Contemporary artists and acts of creation -- Art book and museum -- Television: standardization and deconstruction -- Notes -- 1 The institutional breeding grounds of the post-war film on art: key figures and networks behind the first International Conference on Art Films -- Joining forces: who founded FIFA? -- Les Amis de l'Art -- The conference's honorary committee -- UNESCO: a fresh impulse to the dissemination of culture -- ICOM: a new method for revealing art -- AICA: art criticism o
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6 Projecting cultural diplomac -- Cold War politics, films on art, and Willard Van Dyke's The Photographer -- Films on art and post-war American culture -- The Cold War and the art of cultural diplomacy -- Celluloid as soft power diplomacy -- Notes -- 7 Henry Moore and A Sculptor's Landscape: modernity, the land and the bomb in two television films by John Read -- A unique collaboration -- Return to Hoglands -- Henry Moore and the bomb -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Creative process, material inscription and Dudley Shaw Ashton's Figures in a Landscape (1953) -- Ashton and Cornwall: landscape at stake -- Ashton's films on art and the development of Figures -- Ashton and Hepworth: geometry and abstraction -- National narratives: the film's reception -- Notes -- 9 Neoplasticism and cinema: Ilya Bolotowsky's experimental films on art -- Encounters in the art world -- Reflections on painting -- Myths of cinema and painting -- Policies and histories of art and film -- Notes -- Select bibliogr
Language:
English
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