The mediatization of the artist / Rachel Esner, Sandra Kisters, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esner, Rachel, editor.

Kisters, Sandra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists in popular culture.

Art--History.

Art.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , [2018]

Summary:

This book offers trans-historical and trans-national perspectives on the image of 'the artist' as a public figure in the popular discourse and imagination. Since the rise of notions of artistic autonomy and the simultaneous demise of old systems of patronage from the late eighteenth century onwards, artists have increasingly found themselves confronted with the necessity of developing a public persona. In the same period, new audiences for art discovered their fascination for the life and work of the artist. The rise of new media such as the illustrated press, photography and film meant that the needs of both parties could easily be satisfied in both words and images. Thanks to these 'new' media, the artist was transformed from a simple producer of works of art into a public figure. The aim of this volume is to reflect on this transformative process, and to study the specific role of the media themselves. Which visual media were deployed, to what effect, and with what kind of audiences in mind? How did the artist, critic, photographer and filmmaker interact in the creation of these representations of the artist?s image?

Contents:

Part I The artist in the (illustrated) process

"At home": visiting the artist's studio in the nineteenth-century French illustrated press / Rachel Esner

Success stories and matyrologies: images of artists in Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift / Lieske Tibbe

"Les épisodes de la vie d'un artiste intéressent beaucoup." The power of the media and how to use it: an exploration of Ensor's self-mediatization / Herwig Todts

Artists' confessions to Tériade in L'Intransigeant, 1928-1929: the construction of a public image / Poppy Sfakianaki

Life's pioneer painters: Dorothy Seiberling and American art in Life magazine, 1949-1968 / Melissa Renn

Part II The artist in documentary and art-house film

Creative process and magic: artists on screen in the 1940s / Pierre Saurisse

COBRA, canvas, and camera: Luc de Heusch filming Alechinsky and Dotremont at work / Steven Jacobs

In bed with Marina Abramović: mediatizing women's art as personal drama / Marcel Bleuler

Art and aisthesis in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio / Marco de Waard

Interviewing the artist: Richter versus Bacon / Sandra Kisters

Part III The artist in the popular imagination

The myth of the artist in children's illustrated literature / Laura Bravo

A physiology of the inglorious artist in early nineteenth-century Paris / Kathryn Desplanque

Mythologies of the artist in modern India: cinema, melodrama, and Ravi Varma / Niharika Dinkar

Mediated art history in biopics: the interplay of myths and media in Pollock / Doris Berger

The glory of the artist / Alain Bonnet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319662299

3319662295

OCLC:

1010654285