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Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

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Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art - Berger, Doris
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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 ...

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Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art 2015, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781501315732

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Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art 2014, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781623560324

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