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Ricciotto Canudo

Ricciotto Canudo
Born2 January 1877 Edit this on Wikidata
Died10 November 1923 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 46)
Resting placeCrématorium-columbarium du Père-Lachaise Edit this on Wikidata

Ricciotto Canudo (French: [kanydo]; 2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France. In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular. Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy. He ventured into poetry, penned novels (pioneering a style emphasizing interpersonal psychology, which he dubbed sinestismo), and established open-air theatre in southern France. As an art critic, he unearthed talents like Chagall, curating a Chagall exhibition in 1914. In that same year, alongside Blaise Cendrars, he issued a call for foreigners residing in France to enlist in the French army. Among the 80,000 who responded was Canudo himself.[1]

He saw cinema as "plastic art in motion", and gave cinema the label "the Sixth Art",[2][3] later changed to "the Seventh Art", still current in French, Italian, and Spanish conceptions of art, among others. Canudo subsequently added dance as a precursor to the sixth—a third rhythmic art with music and poetry—making cinema the seventh art.[4][5][6]

Canudo is often regarded as the inaugural aesthetician of cinema, thus making his "Manifesto" pertinent for an English-speaking readership. Several of Canudo's concepts found resonance with two prominent early French film experimenters—Jean Epstein and Abel Gance.[1]

  1. ^ a b W., J. M. (1975). "Documents of Film Theory: Ricciotto Canudo's "Manifesto of the Seven Arts"". Literature/Film Quarterly. 3 (3): 252–254. ISSN 0090-4260. JSTOR 43795626.
  2. ^ L'Intransigeant, 1 April 1922
  3. ^ abel, richard. french film theory and criticism 1907-1959. Princeton university press. pp. 58–65.
  4. ^ Manifeste des sept arts, coll. Carré d'Art, Séguier, Paris, 1995
  5. ^ La gazette des sept arts, 1922
  6. ^ Manifeste du septième art, La gazette des sept arts, 1923

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