Screening the art world / edited by Temenuga Trifonova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trifonova, Temenuga, editor.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film Culture in Transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors address a rarely explored subject - art in cinema, rather than the art of cinema - by considering films across genres, historical periods, and national cinemas in order to reflect on cinema's fluctuating imaginary of art and the art world. The book examines the intersection of art history with history in cinema; cinema's simultaneous affirmation and denigration of the idea of art as "truth"; the dominant, often contradictory ways in which artists have been represented on screen; and cinematic representations of the art world's tenuous position between commercial good and cultural capital.

Contents:

Editor’s Introduction

Part I Cinema’s Vision of Art: Aspirational, Satiric, Philosophical

1. Art, Truth, Representation: Lois Weber’s Dumb Girl of Portici

2. Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Modern Art and Money on Screen, 1963–1964

3. Cinema as Philosophy of Art

Part II The Aura of Art in (the Age of) Film

4. Ineffability? The Several Vermeers

5. The Joker at the Museum in Tim Burton’s Batman: Artistic Vandalism in Hollywood

6. Chaos ex machina: The Art of Jean Tinguely and the Documentary Image

7. China’s Van Goghs: Documentary Production, International Taste, and Artistic Labor

Part III Affective Historiography: Negotiating the Past through Screening Art

8. A World Made of Art

9. Art and History in Woman in Gold (2015), The Monuments Men (2014), and Francofonia (2015)

10. Examining Public Art in Parks and Recreation’s Pawnee, Indiana

Part IV The Figure of the Artist: Between Mad Genius and Entrepreneur of the Self

11. Homicidal and Suicidal Artist Figures in Film

12. Blood Lust: Realism, Violent Inspiration, and the Artist in Horror Cinema

13. Picturing Picasso : Revisiting Paul Haesaerts’s Visite à Picasso (1950)

14. This Is the End of High Entertainment : Tiny Furniture and This Is the End

15. Screening Performance: Curating the Artist Persona

16. Peter Greenaway’s Artist-Entrepreneurs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70337-2

90-485-6188-4

90-485-5366-0

9781003703372

OCLC:

1296583019