An edition of Lady in the dark (2014)

Lady in the dark

Iris Barry and the art of film

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An edition of Lady in the dark (2014)

Lady in the dark

Iris Barry and the art of film

Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the Isle of Man. An aspiring poet, Barry attracted the attention of Ezra Pound and joined a demimonde of Bloomsbury figures, including Ford Maddox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Waley, Edith Sitwell, and William Butler Yeats. She fell in love with Pound's eccentric fellow Vorticist, Wyndham Lewis, and had two children by him. In London, Barry pursued a career as a novelist, biographer, and critic of motion pictures. In America, she joined the modernist Askew Salon, where she met Alfred Barr, director of the new Museum of Modern Art. There she founded the museum's film department and became its first curator, assuring film's critical legitimacy. She convinced powerful Hollywood figures to submit their work for exhibition, creating a new respect for film and prompting the founding of the International Federation of Film Archives. Barry continued to augment MoMA's film library until World War II, when she joined the Office of Strategic Services to develop pro-American films with Orson Welles, Walt Disney, John Huston, and Frank Capra. Yet despite her patriotic efforts, Barry's "foreignness" and association with such filmmakers as Luis Buñuel made her the target of an anticommunist witch hunt. She eventually left for France and died in obscurity. Drawing on letters, memorabilia, and other documentary sources, Robert Sitton reconstructs Barry's phenomenal life and work while recasting the political involvement of artistic institutions in the twentieth century.

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2014
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2014, Columbia University Press
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2014, Columbia University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.43092, B
Library of Congress
PN1998.3.B3738 S58 2014, PN1998.3.B3738S58

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 475 pages
Number of pages
475

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Open Library
OL27162032M
Internet Archive
ladyindarkirisba0000sitt
ISBN 10
0231165781
ISBN 13
9780231165785
LCCN
2013044123
OCLC/WorldCat
861211096

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