Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art
world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors
address a rarely explored subject - art in cinema, rather than the art
of cinema - by considering films across genres, historical periods, and
national cinemas in order to reflect on cinema's fluctuating imaginary
of art and the art world. The book examines the intersection of art
history with history in cinema; cinema's simultaneous affirmation and
denigration of the idea of art as "truth"; the dominant, often
contradictory ways in which artists have been represented on screen; and
cinematic representations of the art world's tenuous position between
commercial good and cultural capital.