Moving pictures : American art and early film, 1880-1910 /

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Author / Creator:Mathews, Nancy Mowll.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Manchester, Vt. : Hudson Hills Press in association with the Williams College Museum of Art : Distributed in the US and Canada by National Book Network, c2005.
Description:viii, 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5753033
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Other authors / contributors:Musser, Charles.
Williams College. Museum of Art.
ISBN:1555952283 (alk. paper)
1555952631 (soft)
Notes:"Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Traditions of America with moving pictures: American art and early film, 1880-1910, Williams College Museum of Art, July 16, 2005-December 11, 2005"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nancy Mowll Mathews
  • A cornucopia of images : comparison and judgment across theater, film, and the visual arts during the late nineteenth century / Charles Musser
  • Early film and American artistic traditions / Nancy Mowll Mathews
  • Experiencing nature in early film : dialogues with Church's Niagara and Homer's seascapes / Katherine Manthorne
  • John Singer Sargent's moving pictures / Erica Hirshler
  • The line, the stitch, and the wardrobe : conjuring the past in American mural painting and film at the turn of the twentieth century / Lucy Oakley
  • The body in motion / Nancy Mowll Mathews
  • Chronophotography : leaving traces / Marta Braun
  • Frieze Frames : painted processions in American art about 1900 / Marc Simpson
  • "A personality so marked" : Eugen Sandow and visual culture / Charles Musser
  • On the canvas : boxing, art, and cinema / Dan Streible
  • The city in motion / Nancy Mowll Mathews
  • The impressionist city in motion : Childe Hassam and moving pictures in New York City, 1890-1900 / Dana Pilson
  • Tough girls / Ellery Foutch
  • John Sloan : movies and moving through the city / Joyce Schiller
  • Art and film : interactions / Nancy Mowll Mathews
  • The film crowd / Antonia Lant
  • Seeing, touching, fleeing / Michael Leja
  • Moving images and the transformation of the image in modern vision / Tom Gunning.