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Revelatory ‘Robert Frank’ and ‘Hieronymus Bosch’ Continue a Great Year for Art Docs
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Revelatory ‘Robert Frank’ and ‘Hieronymus Bosch’ Continue a Great Year for Art Docs

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Christopher Campbell
Jul 27, 2016
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In an age of renewed interest in nonfiction cinema as art, documentary profiles of artists are caught between two mindsets. On the one hand, many filmmakers understand the need to distinguish their work from the handsome, informative coffee table books that accompany museum exhibitions. They use cinema as a tool to encourage new ways of seeing, rather t…

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