CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Art Film, Cinema Shares, Concrete Art
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Film form: the art film, date: wednesday, january 20th 2016. Agenda: the relationship between art cinema and modernism, distinguishing art cinema from avant-garde cinema, defining the art film as a mode of film practice. Defining the art film as a mode of film practice verisimilar representation. The result is increased self-reflexivity and formal complexity. Distinguishing art cinema from avant-garde cinema in europe in the 1950s. Modernism was characterized by a stridently self-aware artistic practice and a corresponding break with two other artistic movement: romanticism and realism. According to gustave courbet, (cid:498)painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is the negation of the ideal. (cid:499) (cid:498)painting is essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. (cid:499) Realism: positivism: authentic knowledge can only be gained from our own experiences of the world, representation of real and existing things. Romanticism: reveal the truth by defining oneself, albert bierstadt.
