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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Watkins, Raymond (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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