Trans/Actions: Art, Film and Death

by Bruce Barber

Trans/actions: Art, Film and Death explore the representation of art, artists and art history in film through two primary questions. The first: why are there so many representations of stereotypical mad artists, particularly psychopathic killers and suicidal artists in film when there are so few clearly documented cases of such artists within the history of art? And the second question, with two components: is there a political meaning that is able...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974853437
• ISBN13: 9780974853437
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Atropos Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"