Art & artists on screen (press announcement) (2010)
Art & Artists on screen
[REPRINT OF 1993 BOOK FIRST PUBLISHED BY MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS]John A. Walker
(Esher, UK: Institute of Artology, August 2010)
A fascinating and engaging book that examines the ways in which cinema - a form of mass culture - has represented fine art - a form of high culture. It provides detailed, critical analyses of selected European and American films dating from the 1930s to the 1990s which feature artists and archi-tects as heroes and heroines. Walker considers such questions as:
> How historically accurate are dramatised biographies of famous artists such as Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, van Gogh and Camille Claudel?
> What do images of fictional artists and architects in the cinema tell us about popular conceptions of art?
> How have film-makers visualised the arts?
These and other questions concerning the work of film-makers and artists, including Salvador Dali, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, and John Huston are investigated; with artists’ films and arts documentaries also being discussed. Arts and Artists on Screen will be of interest to students and lecturers of art history; fine art and media studies; and those who are intrigued by the ways in which film-makers represent the arts.
John A Walker is a painter and art historian, noted for his books and articles about art and mass media, including Arts TV and Art and Celebrity.)
ISBN 978-0-9545702-5-5
Institute of Artology/CompletelyNovel.com
August 2010
Paperback, £12
Second hand copies of the 1993 edition are available on ebay, abebooks and Amazon
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