Moving Pictures: American Art And Early Film 1880-1910 is a fantastic artbook about the intersection between American art and the new medium of moving pictures during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A medley of essays written by a variety of authors explore the complex interplay of both genres and how they impacted one another, while color illustrations and photography (black-and-white in the cases when the original film or artwork is black-and-white) reveal the evolution of images and the portrayal of motion. Chapters especially focus upon American artistic traditions, and how artists and filmmakers of the era captures both the body in motion and the city in motion. Moving Pictures: American Art And Early Film 1880-1910 is a truly stunning art history that places as much emphasis on the written insights concerning the transformation of genres as it does on upon its vivid and vibrant images. A companion DVD-ROM, which is compatible with PC Internet Explorer/Firefox or Macintosh Safari/Firefoxm, complements this impressive volume.
The exhibition will open at the Williams College Museum of Art on July 16 with a turn of the 20th-century-style, all American festival in the museum courtyard from 4:00-8:00 pm and will be on view at WCMA through December 11, 2005; it will then travel to the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC (March 24-July 16, 2006), the Grey Art Gallery of New York University (September 13-December 9, 2006), and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (February 17-May 20, 2007).
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