Author: Howard Gutner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-09-17
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1493038583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →MGM Style is an overview of the career and achievements of Hollywood’s most famous art director. Cedric Gibbons was the supervisor in charge of the art department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios from its inception in 1924 until Gibbons chose to retire in 1956. Lavishly illustrated with over 175 pristine duotone photographs, the vast majority of which have never before been published, this is the first volume to trace Gibbons’ trendsetting career. At its height in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Gibbons was regularly acknowledged by his peers as having shaped the craft of art direction in American film; his work was recognized as representing the finest in motion picture sets and settings. Gibbons and his associates constructed the villages, towns, streets, squares and edifices that later appeared in hundreds of films, and whose mixed architecture stood in for army camps and the wild west, Dutch New York and Dickensian London, ancient China and modern Japan. Inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus masters, as well as the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris and Frank Lloyd Wright’s experiments with open planning, Gibbons championed the notion that movie decor should move beyond the commercial framework of the popular cinema
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015-03-06
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0813572800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How is the look of a film achieved? In Art Direction and Production Design, six outstanding scholars survey the careers of notable art directors, the influence of specific design styles, the key roles played by particular studios and films in shaping the field, the effect of technological changes on production design, and the shifts in industrial modes of organization. The craft’s purpose is to produce an overall pictorial “vision” for films, and in 1924 a group of designers formed the Cinemagundi Club—their skills encompassed set design, painting, decoration, construction, and budgeting. A few years later, in recognition of their contributions to filmmaking, the first Academy Awards for art direction were given, a clear indication of just how essential the oversight of production design had become to the so-called majors. The original essays presented in Art Direction and Production Design trace the trajectory from Thomas Edison’s primitive studio, the Black Maria, to the growth of the Hollywood “studio system,” to the influence of sound, to a discussion of the “auteur theory,” and to contemporary Hollywood in which computer-generated imagery has become common. By 2000, the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors became the Art Directors Guild, emphasizing the significance of the contributions of art direction and production design to filmmaking. Art Direction and Production Design is a volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series—other titles in the series include Acting, Animation, Cinematography, Directing, Editing and Special/Visual Effects, Producers, Screenwriting, and Sound.
Author: Ozge Samanci
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 146689508X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Ozge, like her sister, to become an engineer. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic tensions of Turkey and the conflicts between secularism and fundamentalism. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Cousteau? A stage actress? Would it be possible to please everyone including herself? In her unpredictable and funny graphic memoir, Ozge recounts her story using inventive collages, weaving together images of the sea, politics, science, and friendship.
Author: Hope Larson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-06-28
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0374300437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fast-paced graphic novel, set in New York City in 1860, follows twins Alexander and Cleo and their adventures at sea, from the same team who created the Eisner Award-winner Salt Magic.
Author: Art Directors Club
Publisher: The Art Directors Club
Published: 2011-12
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 2940411883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Continuously published since 1920, the Art Directors Annual is the world's most widely distributed creative awards reference book and source of inspiration, honoring the year's best work in design and advertising around the globe. Every winning entry (including all Cube and Merit winners) is reproduced in full-color with complete credits. The 90th edition includes the NEW ADC Designism (which explores the responsibilities of creatives to drive social and political change through their work), ADC Hybrid, the 2011 ADC Hall of Fame Laureates and the ADC Black Cube for best in show.