Research Catalog

Title

On the edge of your seat : popular theater and film in early twentieth-century American art / Patricia McDonnell ; with contributions by Robert C. Allen ... [et al.].

Author

McDonnell, Patricia, 1956-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press ; Minneapolis : In association with Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950-
• Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum.
• Montclair Art Museum.
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Description

xii, 219 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.

Summary

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, On the edge of your seat : Popular theater and film in early-twentieth century American art, organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Alternative Title

Popular theater and film in early twentieth-century American art

Subject

• Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Theater in art > Exhibitions
• Art and motion pictures > Exhibitions
• Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'On the edge of your seat : popular theater and film in early twentieth-century American art,' organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis"--T.p. verso.
• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, April 20-Aug. 4, 2002, the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J., Sept. 15, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Feb. 22-May 18, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-213) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

American early modern artists, vaudeville, and film / Patricia McDonnell -- It begins with the lights: electrification and the rise of public entertainment / David Nasaw -- "A decided sensation": cinema, vaudeville, and burlesque / Robert C. Allen -- Setting the stage for motion pictures / C. Lance Brockman -- In order: fragmentation in film and vaudeville / Leo Charney -- Charles Demuth's vaudeville watercolors and the rhythm and spectacle of modern life / Laural Weintraub -- Edward Hopper and the theater of the mind: vision, spectacle, and the spectator / Robert Silberman -- Everett Shinn and the intimate spectacle of vaudeville / Sylvia Yount -- City, stage, and screen: John Sloan's urban theater / Rebecca Zurier -- "A company of ghosts, playing to spectral music": Gesamtkunstkino and the future of digital cinema / Walter Murch.

ISBN

• 0300092407 (alk. paper)
• 188511611X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001005109

OCLC

47844694

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library