The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema (1959)

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Title:
The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema
Date:
1959
Publisher:
New York : Hill and Wang
Volume:
The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema
Leaf #:
000169
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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CREATIVE PROBLEMS OF THE ART OF THE CAMERA-MAN Fig. 95. — May Day Poster. .rtist. Cinematographic pictures are frequently copied by artists, and, finally, ;ven the stylistic peculiarities of the cinema are frequently reflected in pictorial ftrt. Compare the photograph of Sokolov's picture " The Arrest of the Provisional jovernment " with a frame dealing with the same subject, taken from EisensteinHsse's film, " October ". Careful study will reveal not only a general similarity n the compositional scheme, but identity in all the details of the planning and of he individual images. The figure of Antonov-Ovseenko, the Red Guard standing it his side, the figure of the Minister, the group of sailors in the left foreground, ire all borrowed entirely from frames of the film " October ". The artist had only .0 introduce the chandelier also into his picture for his work to have lost all claim o originality. Analogous examples are to be found in Samokhvalov's picture : ' V. I. 171