Cinema Mon Amour: Film in Art

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Cinema mon amour focuses on the mutual fascination that art and film have for one another. It features work by international artists, including Martin Arnold, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Marc Bauer, Pierre Bismuth, Candice Breitz, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, collectif_fact, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Thomas Galler, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Muller, Douglas Gordon, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Samson Kambalu, Daniela Keiser, Urs Luthi, Philippe Parreno, Julian Rosefeldt, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and Mark Wallinger. All of them have engaged with different themes surrounding cinema and filmmaking. The well-founded essays discuss topics such as cinema as space, the film industry, found footage, specific movies and genres, the mechanisms of film, as well as the filmmakers' gaze at art. This lavishly illustrated book, published to coincide with an exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Switzerland, offers an insight into the allure that film and cinema have on us. Cinema mon amour, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, 22 January to 17 April 2017.

Text in English and German.

AUTHOR:
Madeleine Schuppli is the director of Aargauer Kunsthaus, one of the leading Swiss art museums with a comprehensive public collection of art dating from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.

SELLING POINTS:
• A lavishly illustrated survey of the mutual fascination that art and film have for one another
• Features a large selection of works by international artists

130 colour, 41 b/w illustrations

ISBN: 9783858815415
Author: SCHUPPLI, MEDELEINE
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28/02/2017
RRP: $99.00
Pages: 224
Dimension: 200mm X 265mm
Imprint: Scheidegger & Spiess