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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
- Voltaire
(1694 - 1778)
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ZIN Product Number: 10059002
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 Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300092407
Release Date: Jan 6, 2000
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American artists in the early decades of the twentieth century found rich inspiration in vaudeville halls, revue theaters, and moving-picture houses. The spectacular new visual attractions in these venues, emerging partly as a result of such technological advances as electrical lighting of the stage and the invention of motion pictures, emboldened artists to translate the arresting stimuli to their own medium. This handsomely illustrated book is the first devoted to American artists' responses to film, popular theater, and other urban amusements from 1890 to 1930. The book presents more than one hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, and photographs that convey the highly charged experience of attending vaudeville, early moving-picture shows, and other forms of popular amusements. These works of art reveal much about the beginnings of modernity in the United States and about how artists in early twentieth-century America searched for new pictorial vocabularies to express the profound change and dynamism of their time. The contributors to the volume represent a wide variety of expertise -- from art history to film to theater -- and they examine works by such key artists as Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, Walt Kuhn, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan, each of whom found a different formal and stylistic means to portray popular entertainment and, along the way, what it meant to be modern.
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| | | |  | | | | Director's Foreword | IX | | Acknowledgments | XI | | 1 | American Early Modern Artists, Vaudeville, and Film | 3 | | 2 | It Begins with the Lights: Electrification and the Rise of Public Entertainment | 45 | | 3 | "A Decided Sensation": Cinema, Vaudeville, and Burlesque | 61 | | 4 | Setting the Stage for Motion Pictures | 91 | | 5 | In Order: Fragmentation in Film and Vaudeville | 107 | | 6 | Charles Demuth's Vaudeville Watercolors and the Rhythm and Spectacle of Modern Life | 123 | | 7 | Edward Hopper and the Theater of the Mind: Vision, Spectacle, and the Spectator | 137 | | 8 | Everett Shinn and the Intimate Spectacle of Vaudeville | 157 | | 9 | City, Stage, and Screen: John Sloan's Urban Theater | 175 | | 10 | "A Company of Ghosts, Playing to Spectral Music": Gesamtkunstkino and the Future of Digital Cinema | 189 | | Selected Bibliography | 202 | | Notes on the Authors | 214 | | Index | 216 | | Photo Credits | 220 |
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