Art and Celebrity
Author | : John A. Walker |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
A lively and accessible study of what happens when the ‘serious’ world of art collides with celebrity.
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Author | : John A. Walker |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
A lively and accessible study of what happens when the ‘serious’ world of art collides with celebrity.
Author | : Heather McPherson |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Actresses |
ISBN | : 9780271074078 |
Explores the vibrant visual and theatrical culture of eighteenth-century England. Focuses on the central role of images in the invention of modern celebrity culture.
Author | : Meredith Hooper |
Publisher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art museums |
ISBN | : 9781845075989 |
It is Cats' Visiting Night at the Art Gallery, and cats want to see paintings with cats in them - six funny reworkings of famous paintings, each shown alongside the original masterpiece.
Author | : Isabelle Graw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781933128795 |
First published in German by DuMont in 2008.
Author | : Emily Ruth Rutter |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1644532468 |
Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.
Author | : Bulfinch Press |
Publisher | : Little Brown GBR |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2005-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780821228173 |
One hundred photographs from "Rolling Stone" magazine celebrate the art of the tattoo in shots of musicians, actors, and other pop icons, including Drew Barrymore, Eminem, Melissa Etheridge, and Ozzy Osborne.
Author | : Bruce Patrick Jones |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2015-08-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0486793494 |
From Brad Pitt and Daniel Craig to Jennifer Lawrence and Angelina Jolie, the hottest celebrities are ready for you to add color to their lives. Includes mazes, spot-the-differences, and other puzzles.
Author | : Doris Berger |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1623566509 |
Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat (1996) and Pollock (2000), the book also discusses larger issues at play, such as how postwar American art history is being mediated for mass consumption. This book bridges a gap between art history, film studies and popular culture by investigating how the film genre of biopics adapts written biographies. It identifies the functionality of the biopic genre and explores its implication for a popular art history that is projected on the big screen for a mass audience.
Author | : Susan J. Douglas |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1479852430 |
The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation of fame. Celebrity explores this revolution and its often under-estimated impact on American culture. Using numerous precedent-setting examples spanning more than one hundred years of media history, Douglas and McDonnell trace the dynamic relationship between celebrity and the technologies of mass communication that have shaped the nature of fame in the United States. Revealing how televised music fanned a worldwide phenomenon called “Beatlemania” and how Kim Kardashian broke the internet, Douglas and McDonnell also show how the media has shaped both the lives of the famous and the nature of the spotlight itself. Celebrity examines the production, circulation, and effects of celebrity culture to consider the impact of stars from Shirley Temple to Muhammad Ali to the homegrown star made possible by your Instagram feed. It maps ever-evolving media technologies as they adeptly interweave the lives of the rich and famous into ours: from newspapers and photography in the nineteenth century, to the twentieth century’s radio, cinema, and television, up to the revolutionary impact of the internet and social media. Today, mass media relies upon an ever-changing cast of celebrities to grab our attention and money, and new stars are conquering new platforms to build their adoring audiences and enhance their images. In the era of YouTube, Snapchat, and reality television, fame may be fleeting, but its impact on society is profound and lasting.
Author | : John Nici |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2015-09-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1442249552 |
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made this portrait so renowned, commanding such adoration? And what of other works of art that continue to enthrall spectators: What makes the Great Sphinx so great? Why do iterations of The Scream and American Gothic permeate nearly all aspects of popular culture? Is it because of the mastery of the artists who created them? Or can something else account for their popularity? In Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way, John B. Nici looks at twenty well-known paintings, sculptures, and photographs that have left lasting impressions on the general public. As Nici notes, there are many reasons why works of art become famous; few have anything to do with quality. The author explains why the reputations of some creations have grown over the years, some disproportionate to their artistic value. Written in a style that is both entertaining and informative, this book explains how fame is achieved, and ultimately how a work either retains that fame, or passes from the public consciousness. From ancient artifacts to a can of soup, this book raises the question: Did the talent to promote and publicize a work exceed the skills employed to create that object of worship? Or are some masterpieces truly worth the admiration they receive? The creations covered in this book include the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, El Greco’s The Burial of Count Orgaz, Rodin’s The Thinker, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and Picasso’s Guernica. Featuring more than sixty images, including color reproductions, Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered if a great painting, sculpture, or photograph, really deserves to be called “great.”