Film and Modern American Art

Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, USA.

"This lively study offers a fresh and provocative examination of the dialogue between art and the movies in the early modern era, a dialogue that, in catalysing new ways of looking, fundamentally transformed modern painting. Looking at many familiar subjects from fresh vantage points, Manthorne reveals how dramatically the new media shaped modern pictorial vision and the ways that painters both saw and represented the modern world and the American landscape." - Sarah Burns, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. TWO AMERICAN ARTISTS AND SILENT CINEMA; Chapter 1. Lust for Looking: John Sloan’s Moving Picture Eye; Chapter 2. Transforming Moving Pictures into Art: Everett Shinn, Artist on the Set; PART II. NEW WOMAN, NEW NEGRO; Chapter 3. Leading Ladies: Dance, Reform, Liberation; Chapter 4. Seeing in Black and White: Resistance, Rhythm, Renaissance; Timeline; Select Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index