TOULET (Emmanuelle), ed., Cinema at the Crossroads of the Ar - Lot 287

TOULET (Emmanuelle), ed., Cinema at the Crossroads of the Arts: France, the 1920s and 1930s Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1995. Large quarto, illustrated paperback, with abundant black-and-white and color illustrations. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this book explores the many exchanges between the nascent cinema and the artistic avant-garde movements of the interwar period. Writers, painters, musicians, architects, and theater artists are brought together here around the seventh art, then perceived as the modern medium par excellence. The contributions shed light on the connections between cinema and avant-garde movements—notably Surrealism, Cubism, Futurism, and Art Deco—through figures such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, and Marcel L’Herbier. This richly illustrated reference work has become a classic for the study of the relationship between cinema and artistic modernity in France during the 1920s and 1930s.