Illustrated study of American artists' response to vaudeville performances, music-hall, theatre and early cinema screenings from 1890 to 1930. Subjects covered in a wide selection of paintings and drawings include audience experience, interior architecture, dancers, showmen and the atmosphere of entertainment venues. Published to accompany an exhibition successively at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Contains ten essays: 'American early modern artists, vaudeville and film' by Patricia McDonnell; 'It begins with the lights: electrification and the rise of public entertainment' by David Nasaw; '"A decided sensation": cinema, vaudeville and burlesque' by Robert C. Allen; 'Setting the stage for motion pictures' by C. Lance Brockman; 'In order: fragmentation in film and vaudeville' by Leo Charney; 'Charles Demuth's vaudeville watercolors and the rhythm and spectacle of modern life' by Laural Weintraub; 'Edward Hopper and the theater of the mind: vision, spectacle and the spectator' by Robert Silberman; 'Everett Shinn and the intimate spectacle of vaudeville' by Sylvia Yount; 'City, stage and screen: John Sloan's urban theater' by Rebecca Zurier; '"A company of ghosts, playing to spectral music": gesamtkunstkino and the future of digital cinema' by Walter Murch.
| Item number | 34533 |
|---|---|
| Category | Book |
| Type | Criticism/History |
| Language | English |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Related people | Patricia McDonnell (Author) |
| David Nasaw (Author) | |
| Robert C. Allen (Author) | |
| C. Lance Brockman (Author) | |
| Leo Charney (Author) | |
| Laural Weintraub (Author) | |
| Robert Silberman (Author) | |
| Sylvia Yount (Author) | |
| Rebecca Zurier (Author) | |
| Walter Murch (Author) |
Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection