Screening the Art World

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Screening the Art World

Edited by: Temenuga Trifonova

In the series Film Culture in Transition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553662

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Trifonova Temenuga :

Temenuga Trifonova, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at York University, is the author of The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema (2020), Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology (2014), The Image in French Philosophy (2007), and the edited volumes Screening the Art World (2022), Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (2017), and European Film Theory (2008). In Fall 2023 Trifonova will join UCL (University College London) as Associate Professor of Creative Arts and Humanities.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Editor’s Introduction Temenuga Trifonova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Part I Cinema’s Vision of Art: Aspirational, Satiric, Philosophical
1. Art, Truth, Representation: Lois Weber’s Dumb Girl of Portici Katherine Manthorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Modern Art and Money on Screen, 1963–1964 Susan Felleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Cinema as Philosophy of Art Temenuga Trifonova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Part II The Aura of Art in (the Age of) Film
4. Ineffability? The Several Vermeers Brigitte Peucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5. The Joker at the Museum in Tim Burton’s Batman: Artistic Vandalism in Hollywood Pierre-Antoine Pellerin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. Chaos ex machina: The Art of Jean Tinguely and the Documentary Image Des O’Rawe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
7. China’s Van Goghs: Documentary Production, International Taste, and Artistic Labor A. T. McKenna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part III Affective Historiography: Negotiating the Past through Screening Art
8. A World Made of Art Gillian McIver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
9. Art and History in Woman in Gold (2015), The Monuments Men (2014), and Francofonia (2015) Christine Sprengler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10. Examining Public Art in Parks and Recreation’s Pawnee, Indiana Annie Dell’Aria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part IV The Figure of the Artist: Between Mad Genius and Entrepreneur of the Self
11. Homicidal and Suicidal Artist Figures in Film Bruce A. Barber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12. Blood Lust: Realism, Violent Inspiration, and the Artist in Horror Cinema Kate Robertson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
13. Picturing Picasso : Revisiting Paul Haesaerts’s Visite à Picasso (1950) Steven Jacobs and Joséphine Vandekerckhove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
14. This Is the End of High Entertainment : Tiny Furniture and This Is the End Kelly Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
15. Screening Performance: Curating the Artist Persona Susan Flynn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
16. Peter Greenaway’s Artist-Entrepreneurs Marco de Waard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 330
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: cinema; visual arts; aesthetics

eBook

Published: February 15, 2022
ISBN: 9789048553662