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Zusatztext At a time when the “high” and “low’ of culture seems reoriented to “digital” and “analogue”, Berger’s Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art points directly to the center of why, and how, the history of art matters to our culture. With a popular lens onto big-budget films, like Pollock , she grounds the intersection of real art and artists with film; the medium through which many are brought into the discipline. Exhaustively researched and engagingly written, Berger thoughtfully reminds the academy (art and film historians alike) to pay attention to its viewing public. Informationen zum Autor Doris Berger is the Exhibitions Curator at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, USA. She was formerly a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center, 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. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Examines the biopics of two artists in order to represent and project a form of art history for a mass audience. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
