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Cubism and Futurism
R. Bruce Elder
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Description for Cubism and Futurism
Hardback. At its inception, the cinema was understood by many to be an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sostnic energy. This book examines the two movements' engagement with the Faraday and Maxwell's new science of energy, and shows energy came to be understood as a spiritual phenomenon and the cinema as a pneumatic machine. Num Pages: 591 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD5; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Cubism and futurism were related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception - these issues passed back and forth between the two. Cubism and Futurism shows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor with the advent of the cinema: gone were the days when an artwork strived merely to lift experience out the realm of change and flow.
Cubism and futurism were related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception - these issues passed back and forth between the two. Cubism and Futurism shows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor with the advent of the cinema: gone were the days when an artwork strived merely to lift experience out the realm of change and flow.
The cinema at this time was understood as an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. In this book, celebrated filmmaker and author Bruce Elder ... Read more
Cubism and Futurism shows that the notion of energy made central to the new artwork by the cinema assumed a spiritual dimension, as the cinema itself came to be seen as a pneumatic machine.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
591
Condition
New
Number of Pages
591
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771122450
SKU
V9781771122450
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About R. Bruce Elder
R. Bruce Elder is an award-winning filmmaker and teaches media at Ryerson University. His book Harmony & Dissent (WLU Press, 2008) received the prestigious Robert Motherwell Book Prize and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Rudolf Kuenzli described DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect (WLU Press, 2013) as ""that rare book that casts the early twentieth-century avant-garde in a ... Read more
Reviews for Cubism and Futurism
"This volume establishes R. Bruce Elder's writing as belonging among works of rare analytical depth, and probably unique within the panorama of film theorists. I know of no cineaste more attentive to esthetical and philosophical issues. The tissues of his thought processes manifest constantly in the deluge of original commentary, opening innovative avenues of meaning. Reading this volume is like ... Read more