Art in the Cinema

In the 1940s and 1950s hundreds of art documentaries were produced many of them being highly personal poetic reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the exception of Alain Resnais's <i>Van Gogh</i> (1948) Henri-Georges Clouzot's <i>Le Mystère Picasso</i> (1956) and a few others most of them have received only scant scholarly attention. This book aims to rectify this situation by discussing the most lyrical experimental and influential post-war art documentaries connecting them to contemporaneous museological developments and Euro-American cultural and political relationships. With contributors with expertise across art history and film studies <i>Art in the Cinema</i> draws attention to film projects by André Bazin Ilya Bolotowsky Paul Haesaerts Carlo Ragghianti John Read Dudley Shaw Aston Henri Storck and Willard Van Dyke among others.