Ricciotto Canudo
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- | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''Ricciotto Canudo''' ([[1879]]-[[1923]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[film theory|film theoretician]]. In his manifesto ''The Birth of the Sixth Art'', published as early as 1911, he argued that the [[film|cinema]] synthetized the spatial arts ([[architecture]], [[sculpture]] and [[painting]]) with the temporal arts ([[music]] and [[dance]]). He later added [[poetry]] in his 1923 better-known [[manifesto]] ''[[Reflections on the Seventh Art]]'' (which went through a number of earlier drafts, all published in Italy or [[France]]). He is therefore considered to be the very first theoretician of cinema. He saw cinema as "plastic art in motion". |
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+ | Canudo lived primarily in France. A collection of his [[essay]]s ''L'usine aux images'' appeared in [[Paris]] in 1927. | ||
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+ | ==Other Writings== | ||
+ | *La ville sans chef, Paris 1910 | ||
+ | *Music as a religion of the future, London 1913 | ||
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Canudo lived primarily in France. A collection of his essays L'usine aux images appeared in Paris in 1927.
Other Writings
- La ville sans chef, Paris 1910
- Music as a religion of the future, London 1913
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