Documenting the Visual Arts

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Bringing together an international range of scholars, as well as filmmakers and curators, this book explores the rich variety in form and content of the contemporary art documentary.Since their emergence in the late 1940s as a distinct genre, documentaries about the visual arts have made significant contributions to art education, public television, and documentary filmmaking, yet they have received little scholarly attention from either art history or film studies. Documenting the Visual Arts brings that attention to the fore. Whether considering documentaries about painting, sculpture, photography, performance art, site-specific installation, or fashion, the chapters of this book engage with the key question of intermediality: how film can reframe other visual arts through its specific audio-visual qualities, in order to generate new ways of understanding those arts. The essays illuminate furthermore how art documentaries raise some of the most critical issues of the contemporary global art world, specifically the discourse of the artist, the dynamics of documentation, and the visuality of the museum. Contributors discuss documentaries by filmmakers such as Frederick Wiseman, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jia Zhangke, and Trisha Ziff, and about artists such as Michael Heizer, Ai Weiwei, Do Ho Suh, and Marina Abramović. This collection of new international and interdisciplinary scholarship on visual art documentaries is ideal for students and scholars of visual arts and filmmaking, as well as art history, arts education, and media studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-18
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138565982

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IntroductionRoger HallasPart I: Historical Foundations1. Henri Storck’s Le Monde de Paul Delvaux and Pygmalionist CinemaSteven Jacobs2. A Sculptor’s Life on Screen: John Read’s Film Portraits of Henry Moore for BBC TelevisionKaterina Loukopoulou Part II: Representing the Artist3. A Portrait of the Artist as Automaton: Creativity, Labor, and Technology in Tim’s VermeerStephan Boman4. Flesh and Vision: Jia Zhangke’s Still Life and DongAmy Villarejo 5. Globalizing Ai WeiweiLuke RobinsonPart III: Questions of Documentation 6. Film and the Performance of Marina Abramović: Documentary as Documentation Chanda Laine Carey7. Gained in Translation: Site-Specificity in Recent DocumentariesVera Brunner-Sung 8. The Wages of !W.A.R.: Activist Historiography and the Feminist Art Movement Theresa L. Geller Part IV: Museum Gazing9. When Art Exhibition Met Cinema Exhibition: Live Documentary and the Remediation of the Museum ExperienceAnnabelle Honess Roe 10. Museum Movies, Documentary Space, and the Transmedial Asbjørn Grønstad 11. "Seeing Too Much is Seeing Nothing": The Place of Fashion within the Documentary FrameMatthew J. FeePart V: Art Worlds and Film Worlds12. Challenging the Hierarchies of Photographic HistoryTrisha Ziff, interviewed by Roger Hallas13. On the History (and Future) of Art Documentaries and the Film Program at the National Gallery of ArtMargaret Parsons, interviewed by Marsha Gordon