Art and Celebrity
Author: John A. Walker
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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)
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively and accessible study of what happens when the ‘serious’ world of art collides with celebrity.
Author: Heather McPherson
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271074078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores 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
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781845075989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt 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:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933128795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in German by DuMont in 2008.
Author: Emily Ruth Rutter
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1644532468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack 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: John Nici
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-09-17
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1442249552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.”
Author: Bulfinch Press
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
Published: 2005-11
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780821228173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne 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
Published: 2015-08-19
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0486793494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1623566509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiopics 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: Andy Stewart MacKay
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 178157801X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this age of insta-stardom and selfies, Pop Art still defines the world we live in. Emerging in the 1950s, Pop Art arrived in an explosion of colour, offering bold representations and plenty of humour. All of the celebrities, events and politics that came to define two turbulent decades are encapsulated in their work. Pop Art challenged the establishment and offered a new modernism, blurring the line between art and mass production. Uncover 100 stories in this essential guide to a groundbreaking movement. Enjoy enlightening critiques of iconic works; meet key figures including Warhol and Hockney; and discover inspirational ideas and novel new methods.