Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Solomon, Matthew

Titel

Georges Méliès: Anti-Boulangist Caricature and the Incohérent Movement

Ist Teil von

• Framework, 2012-10, Vol.53 (2), p.305-327

Ort / Verlag

Detroit: Wayne State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "7 These creations and inventions, his memoirs go on to emphasize, centered on magic theater and, not long after that, the cinematograph. [...]Méliès dichotomizes art and politics, while disavowing the ways in which his drawings for La Griffe were not only political images but also "artistic creations" of a very particular and historically specific kind. According to his biographer, Madeleine Malthête-Méliès, he knew contributors to Le Don Quichotte and Le Grelot through Adolphe Méliès.13 Both of these journals predated the Boulanger affair but took a consistently anti-Boulangist stance during this period. In the editorial message of its first issue, the journal clearly stated, "we are Republicans without epithet"-that is, neither Radical nor Opportunist. [...]the editorial claimed (after Adolphe Thiers), "the Republic is the government that divides us least," vowing to fight the deceptions of the Republic's "implacable opponents" by "exposing their bad faith and their hypocrisy. According to his son André, Méliès traced all of the backdrops used in his films himself onto fabric from his own drawings; this often involved Méliès perched on a ladder holding a long stick with charcoal on the end since he preferred to make these drawings with the cloth suspended vertically.64 He and several artists then painted the backdrop in black and shades of gray.