Browsing by Author "Dillon, Diane"

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    Moving pictures: Francis Bacon and the movement-image
    (1995) Rogers, Molly Paule; Dillon, Diane
    The English painter Francis Bacon had a specific interest in the cinema. From this interest, though not independent of his other artistic concerns, arises two aspects of Bacon's images that relate to the cinematic medium: the sense of movement that the paintings engender, and the strong affect that they have on spectators. Bacon conceived of his images cinematically, that is, in series, and employed the technique of Eisensteinian montage with each panel of his triptychs functioning as a shot. Further, the spectator experiences Bacon's imagery both as presenting and representing movement, a condition of all cinema, and in a deeply affective manner, characteristic of certain film images such as the close-up. In short, Bacon's paintings are experienced phenomenologically in a manner similar to motion pictures.
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    Sex, lies, and photographs: Letters from George Platt Lynes
    (1997) Thompson, William Richard; Dillon, Diane
    In the fall of 1952, George Platt Lynes created one of his most memorable photographs: the image of two nude men--one black, one white--reclining in an intimate embrace. Lynes titled the print Man in His Element, but due to its overt homoeroticism and interracial content he could not show it in public. Instead, Lynes privately distributed the photograph and its variants through the mail and told the story of their creation in letters to a close friend. Lynes's letters were an integral part of his artistic and voyeuristic activities. Through writing Lynes framed the ambivalent racial coding of Man in His Element and its variants, and in doing so, he asserted his authority as a white, socially privileged man. Lynes's writings also functioned as a form of confessional discourse which enabled the photographer to document and speak the truth about his marginalized sexual identity and artistic production.