Marcel Duchamp: The Large Glass and Readymades/Film Montage: The Projection of Modernity

Synopsis: MARCEL DUCHAMP: THE LARGE GLASS AND READYMADES looks at details of the work of Marcel Duchamp who was a central figure in 20th century art. Several of his pieces such as ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’, ‘The Large Glass’ and some of his ‘Readymades’ are included. Presented by Professor Molly Nesbit of Columbia University and mainly shot in the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art which holds the most extensive Duchamp collection.

FILM MONTAGE: THE PROJECTION OF MODERNITY - Dr Briony Fer talks about the political aesthetic of film montage and the different approaches that the influential Soviet film-makers. Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov developed as they invented this new visual language of mass communication. Using material from ‘Strike’ and ‘October’ Eisenstein’s approach to dramatised documentary is contrasted with Vertov’s purer mechanical vision in ‘Man with a Movie Camera’. Their shared emphasis on modernity and the city is compared with the formalistic approach taken by their ‘capitalist’ contemporary Walter Ruttman in ‘Berlin: Symphony of a Great City’.
Series: Art of the Twentieth Century, Course Aa318
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2005
Year of production: 2004
Subjects: Art
Keywords: aesthetics; art - modern art; documentary films; Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1868); Modernism; Film & television production

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