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Projected Art History

Projected Art History

Berger, Doris

Hardcover

Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

Art HistoryAmerican Art - GeneralFilmmaking

ISBN10: 1623560322
ISBN13: 9781623560324
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 8 2014
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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.

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