Mediatization of the Artist

Rachel Esner is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is a specialist in nineteenth-century French art and photography. Her research focuses on the artist’s studio and the emergence of the artist as a public figure. Among others, she is co-editor of Hiding Making – Showing Creation: The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean (2013).Sandra Kisters is Head of Collection and Research at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Her research focuses on the (self-)representation of the modern artist. Her publications include the edited volume Hiding Making – Showing Creation: The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean (2013), and The Lure of the Biographical: On the (Self)-Representation of Modern Artists (2017).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. “At Home”: Visiting the Artist’s Studio in the Nineteenth-Century French Illustrated Press - Rachel Esner.- 3. Success Stories and Martyrologies: Images of Artists in Elsevier’s Geïllustreerde Maandschrift - Liekse Tibbe.- 4. “Les épisodes de la vie d’un artiste intéressent beaucoup.” The Power of the Media and How To Use It: An Exploration of Ensor’s Self-Mediatization - Herwig Todts.- 5. Artists’ Confessions to Tériade in L’Intransigeant, 1928-29: The Construction of a Public Image - Poppy Sfakianaki.- 6. Life’s Pioneer Painters: Dorothy Seiberling and American Art in Life Magazine, 1949−1968 - Melissa Renn.- 7. Creative Process and Magic: Artists on Screen in the 1940s - Pierre Saurisse.- 8. COBRA. Canvas, and Camera: Luc de Heusch Filming Alechinsky and Dotremont at Work - Steven Jacobs.- 9. In Bed with Marina Abramovic: Mediatizing Women’s Art as Personal Drama - Marcel Bleuler.- 10. Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio and the Aesthetic Regime of Art - Marco de Waard.- 11. Interviewing the Artist: Richter versus Bacon - Sandra Kisters.- 12. The Myth of the Artist in Children’s Illustrated Literature - Laura Bravo.- 13. A Physiology of the Inglorious Artist in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris - Kathryn Desplanque.- 14. Mythologies of the Artist in Modern India: The Many Lives of Raja Ravi Varma - Niharika Dinkar.- 15. Mediated Art History in Biopics: The Interplay of Myths and Media in Pollock - Doris Berger.- 16. The Glory of the Artist - Alain Bonnet.

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