Art 21 : Transformation / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).
What happens when the artists becomes the art? In Transformation, three artists satirize society and reinvent icons of literature, art history, and pop culture by inhabiting the characters they create and capturing the sensibilities of our age. It is a personal portrait of Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Films Media Group,
[2011]
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| Series: | Art:21 (Television program) ;
season 5. |
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| Summary: | What happens when the artists becomes the art? In Transformation, three artists satirize society and reinvent icons of literature, art history, and pop culture by inhabiting the characters they create and capturing the sensibilities of our age. It is a personal portrait of Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, and Paul McCarthy-three contemporary artists refashioning their identity by way of extreme and avant-garde techniques in costume-making, sculpting, make-up, and cinema, and casting themselves as leading “characters”, so we may see ourselves, and our world, more clearly. |
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| Item Description: | Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware. Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on September 22, 2011. |
| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sound, color, digital file. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet. System requirements: FOD playback platform. |
| Audience: | Access requires authentication through Films on Demand. 9 & up. |