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Description

1. xiii, 350 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Biopics on artists have an enormous effect on the popular understanding of what it means to be an artist. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which the artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Doris Berger bridges a gap between art history, film studies and popular culture by investigating how the film genre of biopics adapts written biographies and projects art history for a mass audience. Berger offers an analytical approach by concentrating on the two case studies Basquiat (1996) and Pollock (2000), but also looks at larger issues at play, such as how postwar American art history is being mediated in a popular format such as the biopic. This is the first book to identify the functionality of the biopic film genre and showcase its implication for a popular art history that is projected on the big screen"--
2. "Examines the biopics of two artists in order to represent and project a form of art history for a mass audience"--

Series statement

1. International texts in critical media aesthetics

Uniform title

1. Projizierte Kunstgeschichte. English
2. International texts in critical media aesthetics.

Alternative title

1. Projizierte Kunstgeschichte.

Subject

1. Basquiat (Motion picture)
2. Pollock (Motion picture)
3. Artists in motion pictures
4. Biographical films > United States > History and criticism
5. Art and popular culture > United States
6. Art, American > 20th century > Public opinion
7. ART / American / General
8. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1. Artist's Biography on Film as Popular Art History Chapter 2. Pollock: A Popular Historiography- Liaisons dangereuses: the filmic staging of Jackson Pollocks -- The artistic field- Debates on authorship: from an artist to a star, from a star to an authorChapter 3. Basquiat and Celebrity Culture- A biopic from an artist's perspective -- The New Yorker art scene- Author/artist/star: Julian Schnabel's entanglementsChapter 4. Hollywood's Art History/ies: The Relation of Artist Myths and Star LegendsBibliographyFilmographyList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements.

Call number

1. MFL 14-4870

Note

1. Original title: Projizierte Kunstgeschichte : Mythen und Images in den Filmbiografien über Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Bielefeld : Transcript, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-343), filmography (pages 311-314), and index.

Author

1. Berger, Doris, 1972- author.

Title

1. Projected art history : biopics, celebrity culture, and the popularizing of American art / Doris Berger.

Publisher

1. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. International texts in critical media aesthetics
2. International texts in critical media aesthetics.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-343), filmography (pages 311-314), and index.

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1. Cover image

Added author

1. Translation of: Berger, Doris, 1972- Projizierte Kunstgeschichte.

LCCN

1. 2013049439

ISBN

1. 9781623560324 (hardback)
2. 1623560322 (hardback)

Research call number

1. MFL 14-4870