Cubism and Futurism
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- ISBN 9781771122450
- Weight: 1158g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The cinema at this time was understood as an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. In this book, celebrated filmmaker and author Bruce Elder connects the dynamism that the cinema made an essential feature of the new artwork to the new science of electromagnetism. Cubism is a movement on the cusp of the transition from the world of standardized Cartesian coordinates and interchangeable machine parts to a Galvanic world of continuities and flows. In contrast, futurism embraced completely the emerging electromagnetic view of reality.
Cubism and Futurism shows that the notion of energy made central to the new artwork by the cinema assumed a spiritual dimension, as the cinema itself came to be seen as a pneumatic machine.