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Art History in the Cinema Age

The history of the art that has been produced over the last century appears more and more as a history of art in the age of the cinema. To be sure, it remains a history that is still in a written, printed and published form, but it is equally a history in which the moving image and the aspect of the audio-visual are more and more present. So, what has the cinema done to change art history? How can art history be undertaken with film? How should one engage with the task of studying the transformations of art history brought about by and through cinema which are still in progress? These are some of the questions that this article wishes to pose. After briefly recalling the powerful change of perspective and the emergence of new problematic brought about by cinema with respect to the discipline of art history, we will observe that, alongside the “art film”, a work of pure creativity, and the “film about art”, which falls into the documentary category, there was attested from the post-World War II period on what might be called the “art history film”, which was a genuine practice of the history of art with and through the camera. But, if there is therefore, in the history of art history itself, a chapter to be written on the “art history film” as a vector of knowledge, it is no doubt particularly necessary to open up reflection on what was, in the twentieth century and still is today, history informed by and through the cinema, in short, an art history in the cinema age, just at the moment when this age is making way for another, the age of electronic networks, which it broadly anticipated.1