Projected art history : biopics, celebrity culture, and the popularizing of American art / Doris Berger ; [translated from German to English by Brigitte Pichon and Dorian Rudnytsky].

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ISBN:

9781623567347

9781322146348

9781501300097

Title:

Projected art history : biopics, celebrity culture, and the popularizing of American art / Doris Berger ; [translated from German to English by Brigitte Pichon and Dorian Rudnytsky].

Author:

Berger, Doris, 1972- author.

Personal Author:

Berger, Doris, 1972- author.

Uniform Title:

Projizierte Kunstgeschichte. English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages) : illustrations

Series:

International texts in critical media aesthetics ; Volume 8

International texts in critical media aesthetics ; Volume 8.

General Note:

Discrepancy in series enumeration on cover: "Volume 7, International texts in critical media aesthetics."

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

Contents:

Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- 1. Artist's biography in film as popular art history -- 2. Pollock: a popular historiography -- 3. Basquiat and celebrity culture -- 4. Hollywood's art histories: a web of artists' myths and star legends -- filmography -- Bibliography.

Local Note:

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Title Subject:

Basquiat (Motion picture)

Pollock (Motion picture)

Subject Term:

Artists in motion pictures.

Biographical films -- United States -- History and criticism.

Art, American -- 20th century -- Public opinion.

Artistes au cinéma.

Art et culture populaire -- États-Unis.

Art américain -- 20e siècle -- Opinion publique.

Films biographiques -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.

Individual film directors, film-makers.

History of art -- art & design styles.

ART -- American -- General.

PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.

PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.

Art, American -- Public opinion

Art and popular culture

Artists in motion pictures

Biographical films

Geographic Term:

United States

Added Author:

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

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

New York :

Bloomsbury Academic,

2014.

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

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.