{"product_id":"cubism-and-futurism-spiritual-machines-and-the-cinematic-effect-9781771122450","title":"Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003eCubism and futurism were closely related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception--these were the issues that passed back and forth between the two. \u003ci\u003eCubism, Futurism, and Technologies of the Spirit: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect \u003c\/i\u003eshows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor with the advent of the cinema: gone were the days when an artwork strived merely to lift experience out the realm of change and flow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe cinema at this time was understood as an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. In this book, celebrated filmmaker and author Bruce Elder connects the dynamism that the cinema made an essential feature of the new artwork to the new science of electromagnetism. Cubism is a movement on the cusp of the transition from the Cartesian world of standardized Cartesian coordinates and interchangeable machine parts to a Galvanic world of continuities and flows. In contrast, futurism embraced completely the emerging electromagnetic view of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCubism, Futurism, and Technologies of the Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e examines the similarity and differences between the two movements' engagement with the new science of energy and shows that the notion of energy made central to the new artwork by the cinema assumed a spiritual dimension, as the cinema itself came to be seen as a pneumatic machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElder, R. Bruce:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eR. Bruce Elder\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning filmmaker and teaches media at Ryerson University. His book \u003ci\u003eHarmony \u0026amp; Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e (WLU Press, 2008) received the prestigious Robert Motherwell Book Prize and was named a \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Book. Rudolf Kuenzli described \u003ci\u003eDADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect\u003c\/i\u003e (WLU Press, 2013) as \"that rare book that casts the early twentieth-century avant-garde in a very new light.\"","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856670069010,"sku":"9781771122450","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_76f4ee9b-07a1-40b9-be7f-0f275a520832.jpg?v=1737509798","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cubism-and-futurism-spiritual-machines-and-the-cinematic-effect-9781771122450","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}