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.

There is a wide divide between the lives of artists and movies about those artist that can seem impossible to span. Ms. Berger lifts up all the rocks and shows us what's underneath - it's not always predictable or pretty but it's certainly revealing.

• Acknowledgments List of Figures Chapter 1: Artists' biographies in film as popular art history Chapter 2: Pollock: A popular historiography Chapter 3: Basquiat and celebrity culture Chapter 4: Hollywood's art histories: A web of artists' myths and star legendsFilmographyBibliography Index

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.

There is a wide divide between the lives of artists and movies about those artist that can seem impossible to span. Ms. Berger lifts up all the rocks and shows us what's underneath - it's not always predictable or pretty but it's certainly revealing.

• Acknowledgments List of Figures Chapter 1: Artists' biographies in film as popular art history Chapter 2: Pollock: A popular historiography Chapter 3: Basquiat and celebrity culture Chapter 4: Hollywood's art histories: A web of artists' myths and star legendsFilmographyBibliography Index

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.

There is a wide divide between the lives of artists and movies about those artist that can seem impossible to span. Ms. Berger lifts up all the rocks and shows us what's underneath - it's not always predictable or pretty but it's certainly revealing.

• Acknowledgments List of Figures Chapter 1: Artists' biographies in film as popular art history Chapter 2: Pollock: A popular historiography Chapter 3: Basquiat and celebrity culture Chapter 4: Hollywood's art histories: A web of artists' myths and star legendsFilmographyBibliography Index