Documenting the Visual Arts

Author:   Roger Hallas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138565982


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   18 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Documenting the Visual Arts


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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.

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Author:   Roger Hallas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781138565982


ISBN 10:   1138565989
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   18 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction Roger Hallas Part I: Historical Foundations 1. Henri Storck’s Le Monde de Paul Delvaux and Pygmalionist Cinema Steven Jacobs 2. A Sculptor’s Life on Screen: John Read’s Film Portraits of Henry Moore for BBC Television Katerina Loukopoulou Part II: Representing the Artist 3. A Portrait of the Artist as Automaton: Creativity, Labor, and Technology in Tim’s Vermeer Stephan Boman 4. Flesh and Vision: Jia Zhangke’s Still Life and Dong Amy Villarejo 5. Globalizing Ai Weiwei Luke Robinson Part III: Questions of Documentation 6. Film and the Performance of Marina Abramović: Documentary as Documentation Chanda Laine Carey 7. Gained in Translation: Site-Specificity in Recent Documentaries Vera Brunner-Sung 8. The Wages of !W.A.R.: Activist Historiography and the Feminist Art Movement Theresa L. Geller Part IV: Museum Gazing 9. When Art Exhibition Met Cinema Exhibition: Live Documentary and the Remediation of the Museum Experience Annabelle 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 Frame Matthew J. Fee Part V: Art Worlds and Film Worlds 12. Challenging the Hierarchies of Photographic History Trisha Ziff, interviewed by Roger Hallas 13. On the History (and Future) of Art Documentaries and the Film Program at the National Gallery of Art Margaret Parsons, interviewed by Marsha Gordon"

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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).

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