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17%OFFMichael Pigott - Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema - 9781474238458 - V9781474238458
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Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema

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Description for Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema Paperback. This contribution to the WISH List of interdisciplinary studies in the humanities makes the case for the significance of Joseph Cornell's films, for both an Art History and a Film Studies audience. It should also have significant appeal to students of American Studies and all those interested in pop culture, celebrity and fandom. Series: The Wish List. Num Pages: 144 pages, 15-20bw. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Joseph Cornell is one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century. His work is highly visible in the world's most prestigious galleries, including the Tate Modern and MOMA. His famous boxes and his collage work have been admired and widely studied. However, Cornell also produced an extraordinary body of film work, a serious contribution to 20th-century avant-garde cinema, and this has been much less examined. In this book, Michael Piggott makes the case for the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474238458
SKU
V9781474238458
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About Michael Pigott
Michael Pigott is Assistant Professor of Video Art and Digital Media, a post shared equally across the departments of History of Art, Film and Television Studies and the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Reviews for Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema
Compared to other aspects of Joseph Cornell’s art practice, remarkably little has been written about his films. Michael Pigott, in his rich and provocative engagement with these screen works, suggests that this critical silence “arises at least partly from the difficulty in accounting for [them] within contemporary frameworks.” These are films, he argues, that operate as “solutions to problems that ... Read more

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