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Projected art history : biopics, celebrity culture, and the popularizing of American art /

"Examines the biopics of two artists in order to represent and project a form of art history for a mass audience"--

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Main Authors: Berger, Doris, 1972
Published: Bloomsbury,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
German
Series: International texts in critical media aesthetics ; 8
Subjects:
Basquiat Motion picture
Pollock Motion picture
Artists in motion pictures
Biographical films > United States > History and criticism
Art and popular culture > United States
Art, American > 20th century > Public opinion
Summary: "Examines the biopics of two artists in order to represent and project a form of art history for a mass audience"--
Item Description: 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.
Includes filmography.
Carrier Form: xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-343) and index.
ISBN: 9781501315732
9781623560324
1623560322
Index Number: PN1995
CLC: J905.712
Call Number: J905.712/B496
Contents: Chapter 1. Artist's 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 Artist Myths and Star Legends.

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