[ePub] Klimt: His Palette by Arron Adams at Arts-Photography

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Focusing on early cinemas relationship with the pictorial arts; this pioneering study explores how cinemas emergence was grounded in theories of picture composition; craft and arts education ndash; from magic lantern experiments in 1890s New York through to early Hollywood feature films in the 1920s.Challenging received notions that the advent of cinema was a celebration of mechanisation and a radical rejection of nineteenth-century traditions of representation; Kaveh Askari instead emphasises the overlap between craft traditions and modernity in early film.Opening up valuable new perspectives on the history of film as art; Askari links American silent cinema with the practice of teaching the public how to appreciate fine art; charts its entrance into arts education via art schools and university film courses;shows how concepts of artistic production entered films through a material interest in the studio; and examines the way in which Maurice Tourneur and Rex Ingram made early art films by shaping an image of the film director around the idea of the fine artist.