Film and Visual Arts :A n Spatial Artist Ye vgeni Bauer in Imperial Russian Cinema

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  • Ogawa S.
    京都大学人文科学研究所助教

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  • 映画と視覚芸術 : 帝政期ロシア映画における空間の画家エヴゲーニイ・バウエル
  • エイガ ト シカク ゲイジュツ : テイセイキ ロシア エイガ ニ オケル クウカン ノ ガカ エヴゲーニイ ・ バウエル

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This paper discusses how Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer, a major film director in Imperial Russia, created a unique spatial aesthetic and became a deliberate "auteur." After discussing Russian cinema's unique form, I will explore Bauer's life before becoming a director, specifically his painting, engraving, and architectural school period in Moscow and his time spent as a stage designer. Then, I will consider how this influenced his subsequent cinematic creation, analyzing his work from various perspectives (his painting aspects, the spectacle-like aspects of his perspective, scenography in his films, and his traveling shot-based spatial staging) in an attempt to understand the excessive visual characteristics of his films as an encounter between the "art" from his pre-cinema era and the film medium. Bauer's perspectival creation brings to cinema (a unique formative art medium in which two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality co-exist) a complicated scenography not found in painting or the stage. Bauer's film aesthetic was based on classical aesthetic norms from before the 19th century, and was the result of the avant-garde attempt to adapt theater stage design and fine arts to films.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 107 1-29, 2015-09-30

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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