ART CINEMA

Celluloid Canvas: Film as an Artistic Medium A compendium of the development and history of film as art Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarilyin that order. —Jean-Luc Godard Debate over cinema's credibility as an art form is as old as the mediumitself, and largely defined in terms of formal, psychological, ideological,social, or auteurist theories. To explore how artists are also using themedium to investigate a wider range of aesthetic issues that are generallyrelated to modern and contemporary art practices, this book is broken downinto 10 subgenres, including abstraction, collage, appropriation,post-surrealism, structuralism, duration, parody, and expanded cinema. The history of each subgenre is illustrated by over 300 films andfilmmakers, from past masters such as Hans Richter, Man Ray, and StanBrakhage to contemporary artists Stan Douglas, Pipilotti Rist, and DougAitken; from art-house legends David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, and LuisBuńuel to underground icons and contemporary artists Kenneth Anger, MatthewBarney, Bruce Conner, Michael Snow, Owen Land, and Paul McCarthy.