ARTH488Y

The course examines the manners in which law and money constrained and d irected the creation, circulation, distribution, and exhibition of art and cinema. Themes to be explored will include, but not limited to, cinematic representations of artists, bankers, and lawyers; how artists (such as Picasso) achieved financial success and critical acclaim through courting of dealers, critics, collectors, and curators;art crimes (forgery, theft, looting, money laundering); how science fiction films were marketed in response to financial pressures; trials in which artists, artworks, and films acted as protagonists; censorship and self-censorship of art and cinema; art as investment and the roles of private banking services in the global art market.