Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 - Hardcover

Iles, Chrissie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300221878 ISBN 13: 9780300221879

Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016

Synopsis

A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms

This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and artists who have pushed the material and conceptual boundaries of cinema. Over the past century, the material, optical, abstract, spatial, and tactile properties of film have been tested at a level of experimentation and utopian ambition that is generally unrecognized. Whether creating synesthetic or 3-D environments, projective or non-projective installations, generations of leading-edge artists have explored how technology transforms experience.
 
The essays published here offer an intensive look at the themes of cinematic space, formats of the screen, animation and CGI, the body and the cyborg, and the materiality of film. Contributors place particular emphasis on the idea of the cinema as a sensorium and on the ways in which it defines the human body, both through representation and in relation to the projected image. An immersive plate section brings together rarely seen and previously unpublished stills, in addition to concept drawings from historic and contemporary films.

About this title

Book Description:

This catalogue surveys pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms.

About the Author:

Chrissie Iles is Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0300221878
• ISBN 13: 9780300221879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256