Artists’s Lives. Forms, Emphases, and Markets of the Biographic Documentary on Contemporary Artists
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Abstract
The article is the result of an academic research project on the media subgenre of the biographic documentary on contemporary visual artists, as both a tool of dissemination and study of art. Based on the analysis of a corpus of twelve documentaries and six contemporary artists, with a focus on the Italian market, the survey was conducted over three axes: a) the relationship between artist and documentary; b) the storytelling modes; c) financing and circulation. While these products help to improve the research on art, repositioning the artists’ lives as a source for interpretation, this study also reveales their weakness, from a media-industrial standpoint, in terms of dissemination
Keywords
- Art Documentary
- Biopic
- Biography
- Media Industry
- Contemporary Art