Can film renew our relation to the visual arts? Does film offer a specific type of critical discourse on works of art, art history or esthetics ? Within the domain of « films on art » which have recently gained in visibility, the goal of this volume is to delimit the zone of exchanges between the cinema and the study of the visual arts.

From architecture to music, from theory to practice, from art to science, Iannis Xenakis set an example of free movement, always guided by a universal aim of creation.

Designed in 1787, the Panorama offered the public a grandiose representation giving the feeling of visiting a city or reliving a historical event.

Present since the beginnings of the cinema, Matte Painting is a special effect which can be found in thousands of fake shots with an illusion so perfect that viewers are largely unaware of it. Consisting in combining in the same wide shot a real set and its continuation in the form of a painting, whether realized with brushes on glass or ...