05/01/2026
“From Charlton Heston as Michelangelo to Basquiat and Po***ck, Hollywood has often told the story of art and artists - in the process transforming the artists into movie stars and even helping to raise the market value of the art - as this new book explains...Published by Reel Art Press, not yet translated into Italian, its well-illustrated pages show how American cinema has dealt with the most famous visual artists...turning the lives of these artists (in a neo-Vasari way) into a universal metaphor which works everywhere”. Maurizio Di Fazio reviews Christopher Frayling’s The Hollywood History of Art
