Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney Peterson
The article examines the short film Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur (1949), the unique surrealistic adaptation that the American avant-garde director Sidney Peterson made of Balzac’s famous story Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1837). Firstly, a brief introduction is given to the main elements of the st...
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| description | The article examines the short film Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur (1949), the unique surrealistic adaptation that the American avant-garde director Sidney Peterson made of Balzac’s famous story Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1837). Firstly, a brief introduction is given to the main elements of the story and its powerful imprint on the history of art. Then, the film’s two most relevant and innovative contributions are considered: on the one hand, the fusion of Balzac’s story and Picasso’s artistic ideas and, on the other hand, the use of anamorphosis as a technique to turn the film itself into a representation of the kind of art that critics and many artists have seen advocated in Balzac's story and, in particular, in the character and in the mysterious work of the painter Frenhofer, its protagonist. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8b0d0835d9c47c89332dc5440b00ebd2023-08-30T12:32:25ZengUniversidad de ExtremaduraAnuario de Estudios Filológicos0210-81782660-73012023-05-0146303322https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.46.303Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney PetersonPablo Zambrano Carballo0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5728-1753Universidad de HuelvaThe article examines the short film Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur (1949), the unique surrealistic adaptation that the American avant-garde director Sidney Peterson made of Balzac’s famous story Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1837). Firstly, a brief introduction is given to the main elements of the story and its powerful imprint on the history of art. Then, the film’s two most relevant and innovative contributions are considered: on the one hand, the fusion of Balzac’s story and Picasso’s artistic ideas and, on the other hand, the use of anamorphosis as a technique to turn the film itself into a representation of the kind of art that critics and many artists have seen advocated in Balzac's story and, in particular, in the character and in the mysterious work of the painter Frenhofer, its protagonist. literaturecinemapaintingavant-gardesurrealismanamorphosis |
| spellingShingle | Pablo Zambrano Carballo Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney Peterson Anuario de Estudios Filológicos literature cinema painting avant-garde surrealism anamorphosis |
| title | Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney Peterson |
| title_full | Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney Peterson |
| title_fullStr | Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney Peterson |
| title_full_unstemmed | Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney Peterson |
| title_short | Un Balzac picassiano, un Picasso balzaquiano: Mr Frenhofer and the Minotaur, de Sidney Peterson |
| title_sort | un balzac picassiano un picasso balzaquiano mr frenhofer and the minotaur de sidney peterson |
| topic | literature cinema painting avant-garde surrealism anamorphosis |
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