{"product_id":"2940015595161","title":"THE ART OF THE MOVING PICTURE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DENVER ART ASSOCIATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GENERAL PHOTOPLAY SITUATION IN\u003cbr\u003eAMERICA, JANUARY 1, 1922, ESPECIALLY AS\u003cbr\u003eVIEWED FROM THE HEIGHTS OF THE CIVIC\u003cbr\u003eCENTRE AT DENVER, COLORADO, AND THE\u003cbr\u003eDENVER ART MUSEUM, WHICH IS TO BE A\u003cbr\u003eLEADING FEATURE OF THIS CIVIC CENTRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE OUTLINE WHICH HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AS\u003cbr\u003eTHE BASIS OF PHOTOPLAY CRITICISM IN\u003cbr\u003eAMERICA, BOTH IN THE STUDIOS OF THE\u003cbr\u003eLOS ANGELES REGION, AND ALL THE SERIOUS\u003cbr\u003eCRITICISM WHICH HAS APPEARED IN THE\u003cbr\u003eDAILY PRESS AND THE MAGAZINES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.     THE POINT OF VIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.    THE PHOTOPLAY OF ACTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.   THE INTIMATE PHOTOPLAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.    THE MOTION PICTURE OF FAIRY SPLENDOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.     THE PICTURE OF CROWD SPLENDOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.    THE PICTURE OF PATRIOTIC SPLENDOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII.   THE PICTURE OF RELIGIOUS SPLENDOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII.  SCULPTURE-IN-MOTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX.    PAINTING-IN-MOTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX.     FURNITURE, TRAPPINGS, AND INVENTIONS IN MOTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXI.    ARCHITECTURE-IN-MOTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXII.   THIRTY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PHOTOPLAYS AND THE STAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII.  HIEROGLYPHICS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMORE PERSONAL SPECULATIONS AND AFTERTHOUGHTS NOT BROUGHT\u003cbr\u003eFORWARD SO DOGMATICALLY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIV.   THE ORCHESTRA, CONVERSATION, AND THE CENSORSHIP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXV.    THE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SALOON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVI.   CALIFORNIA AND AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVII.  PROGRESS AND ENDOWMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. ARCHITECTS AS CRUSADERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIX.   ON COMING FORTH BY DAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXX.    THE PROPHET-WIZARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXI.   THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DENVER ART ASSOCIATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of the Moving Picture, as it appeared six years ago, possessed\u003cbr\u003eamong many elements of beauty at least one peculiarity. It viewed art as\u003cbr\u003ea reality, and one of our most familiar and popular realities as an art.\u003cbr\u003eThis should have made the book either a revelation or utter Greek to most\u003cbr\u003eof us, and those who read it probably dropped it easily into one or the\u003cbr\u003eother of the two categories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor myself, long a propagandist for its doctrines in another but related\u003cbr\u003efield, the book came as a great solace. In it I found, not an appeal to\u003cbr\u003ehave the art museum used--which would have been an old though welcome\u003cbr\u003estory--not this, but much to my surprise, the art museum actually at\u003cbr\u003ework, one of the very wheels on which our culture rolled forward upon its\u003cbr\u003ehopeful way. I saw among other museums the one whose destinies I was\u003cbr\u003etenderly guiding, playing in Lindsay's book the part that is played by\u003cbr\u003ethe classic myths in Milton, or by the dictionary in the writings of the\u003cbr\u003erest of us. For once the museum and its contents appeared, not as a\u003cbr\u003elovely curiosity, but as one of the basic, and in a sense humble\u003cbr\u003enecessities of life. To paraphrase the author's own text, the art museum,\u003cbr\u003elike the furniture in a good movie, was actually \"in motion\"--a character\u003cbr\u003ein the play. On this point of view as on a pivot turns the whole book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Art of the Moving Picture the nature and domain of a new Muse is\u003cbr\u003edefined. She is the first legitimate addition to the family since classic\u003cbr\u003etimes. And as it required trained painters of pictures like Fulton and\u003cbr\u003eMorse to visualize the possibility of the steamboat and the telegraph, so\u003cbr\u003ethe bold seer who perceived the true nature of this new star in our\u003cbr\u003enightly heavens, it should here be recorded, acquired much of the vision\u003cbr\u003eof his seeing eye through an early training in art. Vachel Lindsay (as he\u003cbr\u003ehimself proudly asserts) was a student at the Institute in Chicago for\u003cbr\u003efour years, spent one more at the League and at Chase's in New York, and\u003cbr\u003efor four more haunted the Metropolitan Museum, lecturing to his fellows\u003cbr\u003eon every art there shown from the Egyptian to that of Arthur B. Davies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly such a background as this could have evolved the conception of\u003cbr\u003e\"Architecture, sculpture, and painting in motion\" and given authenticity\u003cbr\u003eto its presentation. The validity of Lindsay's analysis is attested by\u003cbr\u003eFreeburg's helpful characterization, \"Composition in fluid forms,\" which\u003cbr\u003eit seems to have suggested. To Lindsay's category one would be tempted to\u003cbr\u003eadd, \"pattern in motion,\" applying it to such a film as the \"Caligari\"\u003cbr\u003ewhich he and I have seen together and discussed during these past few\u003cbr\u003edays. Pattern in this connection would imply an emphasis on the intrinsic\u003cbr\u003esuggestion of the spot and shape apart from their immediate relation to\u003cbr\u003ethe appearance of natural objects. But this is a digression. It simply\u003cbr\u003eserves to show the breadth and adaptability of Lindsay's method.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146297655536,"sku":"2940015595161","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015595161","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}