Late Bresson and the Visual Arts : Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment /

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Critics have largely neglected the color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901?99). To correct that oversight, this study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his style to innovations in abstract painting after World War II, exploring his affinities with such avant-gard...

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Autor principal: Watkins, Raymond (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bresson, Robert.
Bresson, Robert > Criticism and interpretation.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art and motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Art et cinema.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bresson's debt to painting: iconography, lighting, color, and framing practices
  • The turn to postwar abstraction: action painting, L'Art Informel, and Le Nouveau Realisme
  • Bresson's flirtation with surrealism: sexual desire, masochism, and abjection
  • The design and pattern of the whole: constructivist painting and theater
  • Between constructivism and minimalism: Bresson's ambivalence toward the modern

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