Bokus
Doris Berger - Projected Art History, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Projected Art History

Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Av Doris Berger

Del i serien International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

572 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning
Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists’ lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat (1996) and Pollock (2000), the book also discusses larger issues at play, such as how postwar American art history is being mediated for mass consumption.This book bridges a gap between art history, film studies and popular culture by investigating how the film genre of biopics adapts written biographies. It identifies the functionality of the biopic genre and explores its implication for a popular art history that is projected on the big screen for a mass audience.
Produktinformation
Utforska kategorier
Mer om författaren

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art.

Recensioner i media

At a time when the “high” and “low’ of culture seems reoriented to “digital” and “analogue”, Berger’s Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art points directly to the center of why, and how, the history of art matters to our culture. With a popular lens onto big-budget films, like Pollock, she grounds the intersection of real art and artists with film; the medium through which many are brought into the discipline. Exhaustively researched and engagingly written, Berger thoughtfully reminds the academy (art and film historians alike) to pay attention to its viewing public.

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.

Mer från samma serie