Documenting the Visual Arts

Roger Hallas is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness and the Queer Moving Image (2009) and the co-editor of The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture (2007).

• 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