Hall of mirrors
Subtitle: art and film since 1945
By: Kerry Brougher ; with essays by Jonathan Crary [et al.].
Contributors: Crary, Jonathan.; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Art and motion pictures -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Art and film since 1945
Description: Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors explores the complex and profound relationship between cinema and the visual arts in the postwar era. It examines how art has shifted toward film, how film has been influenced by art, and how the two have fused into new forms of artistic expression.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art and Film features work by more than one hundred of the century's most remarkable filmmakers and artists, such as Joseph Cornell, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Richard Hamilton, Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Raul Ruiz, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Stan Douglas.

The book's seven essays range widely over themes including Hollywood glamour and stardom, the experimental cinema of the sixties, the influence of psychoanalytic and feminist film theory on art, nostalgia for cinema's golden age, and presentiments of its fragmentation and death. The dialogue between art and film returns frequently to cinema's origins, splintering and re-arranging into new, self-reflexive experiences that highlight and subvert film practice.
Notes: "Selected bibliographies for artists and filmmakers in the exhibition": p. 313-317.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-312).
Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art at the Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, Mar. 17, 1996-July 28, 1996.