Framing the Artists: Artists & Art in Film & Television

Many depictions of artists centre on usual behaviour, love affairs, or self-destruction through drugs and alcohol. Jokes about not being able to understand modern art are endless. Very few biographies of actual or fictive artists seriously attempt to consider the artist's creative process in a nuanced way.

Framing The Artists is an overview of many examples of these characterizations. The reviews that follow are but a few examples of portrayals of artists and their work in film and television. We have watched hundreds of hours of video and concede that our research has only just begun.

From the publisher's website:
Booklet #67. Fictional representations of art and biographical films about dead artists are common in mainstream media, despite the lack of concern with living visual artists and their projects. So what do these representations reveal to us about artists and their work?

Author
Temporary Services (Brett Bloom, Marc Fischer, Salem Collo-Julin)

Publisher
Half Letter Press

Publication date
2005

Binding
Staple-bound softcover

Size
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.125 inches

Language
English