Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity / / Victoria L. Evans.
Examines the influence of modernist art and architecture on the work of American director Douglas SirkThe first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated art...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One. Sirk and the Visual Arts
- CHAPTER ONE Thinking with the Heart: Sirk and Pictorial Reception
- CHAPTER TWO Concerning the Spiritual in Art: Magnificent Obsession and the Influence of Modernist Painting
- Part Two. The Shock of the New: Traces of Modernity
- CHAPTER THREE The Invasion of Machines and Machine Culture
- CHAPTER FOUR Imitation of Life and the Depiction of Suburban Space
- Part Three. Two Architectural Case Studies
- CHAPTER FIVE Final Chord and ‘Die Neue Welt’: The Mise-en-scène of Aufbruch
- CHAPTER SIX Back to the Future: Modernist Architecture and All That Heaven Allows
- Bibliography
- Index