Back and Forth : Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Testa, Bart. Back and Forth : Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde. Toronto, Ont.: Art Gallery of Ontario/Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario, 1992.

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Abstract (English)

The subjects covered in this monograph on the history of early film include: structural or structural/materialist film, metahistory and film historicism, narrative and tableau, primitive style, "cine-tapestry," actuality, apparatus theory and multiple causality, techniques of perspective and filmic space, early cinema and avant-garde films, experimental film and Hollywood classical cinema. Testa reviews and repositions key film historians and "conventional" schools of thought and theory on film.

Types:	Catalogues > Exhibition catalogues
All Contributors:	Testa, Bart (Curator); Testa, Bart (Author); Jonasson, Cathy (Prefacer)
Dossier:	351 - ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO / MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (Toronto)
Collation:	140 p. : 13 ill. ; 22 x 17 cm
ISBN:	1895235227
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Toronto, Ont.: Art Gallery of Ontario/Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario
Artists:	Warhol, Andy; Gallagher, Chris; Burch, Noel; Anger, Kenneth; Razutis, Al; Frampton, Hollis
Critics / Curators / Historians:	Testa, Bart
Art Organizations:	Exhibition Centres > Canada > Ontario > Art Gallery Of Ontario
Event Statement:	Presentation dates: 24 Apr. - 17 May 1992, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto).
Keywords:	AVANT-GARDE; EXPERIMENTAL FILM; EDISON, THOMAS; MELIES, GEORGES; CLAIR, RENE; PICABIA, FRANCIS; LUMIERE, LOUIS; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE; FILM
Deposited by:	Users 1 not found.
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 1993
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2021 19:02
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/4642

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