The Mediatization of the Artist

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Esner, Rachel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kisters, Sandra (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Communication.; Fine arts.; Culture.; Digital media.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Media and Communication.; Fine Arts.; Global/International Culture.; Digital/New Media.; Cultural Theory.

This book offers trans-historical and trans-national perspectives on the image of "the artist" as a public figure in the popular discourse and imagination. Since the rise of notions of artistic autonomy and the simultaneous demise of old systems of patronage from the late eighteenth centur...

Table of Contents:

• 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.