Unlike most studies of the relationship between cinema and art, which privilege questions of medium or institutional specificity and intermediality, 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’ and what this means for cinema’s understanding of itself, 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.
- Cover
- Table of 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)
- Steven Jacobs and Joséphine Vandekerckhove
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
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