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Book The Triumph of Art for the Public

Download or read book The Triumph of Art for the Public written by Elizabeth Basye Gilmore Holt and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Triumph of Art for the Public  1785 1848

Download or read book The Triumph of Art for the Public 1785 1848 written by Elizabeth Basye Gilmore Holt and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European documents depict the relationship among the artists, critics, and public and provide a background to understanding the art world of today

Book The Emerging Role of Exhibitions and Critics

Download or read book The Emerging Role of Exhibitions and Critics written by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape

Download or read book Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape written by Joseph Leo Koerner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe’s first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective—one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not “what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.” This vulnerability of the individual when confronted with nature became one of the key tenets of the Romantic aesthetic. Now available in a compact, accessible format, this beautifully illustrated book is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of one of the most fascinating and influential nineteenth-century painters. “This is a model of interpretative art history, taking in a good deal of German Romantic philosophy, but founded always on the immediate experience of the picture. . . . It is rare to find a scholar so obviously in sympathy with his subject.”—Independent

Book Empire of Landscape

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  • Author : John Zarobell
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0271034432
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Empire of Landscape written by John Zarobell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores visual culture and the social history of art through an analysis of French images of nineteenth-century Algeria"--Provided by publisher.

Book Princeton Alumni Weekly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1038 pages

Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art and Its Publics

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  • Author : Andrew McClellan
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-15
  • ISBN : 0470776714
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Art and Its Publics written by Andrew McClellan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together essays by museum professionals and academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Art and its Publics tackles current issues confronting the museum community and seeks to further the debate between theory and practice around the most pressing of contemporary concerns. Brings together essays that focus on the interface between the art object, its site of display, and the viewing public. Tackles issues confronting the museum community and seeks to further the debate between theory and practice. Presents a cross-section of contemporary concerns with contributions from museum professionals as well as academics. Part of the New Interventions in Art History series, published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.

Book The Documented Image

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  • Author : Gabriel P. Weisberg
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1987-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780815624103
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Documented Image written by Gabriel P. Weisberg and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1987-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Portrait of Dr  Gachet

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  • Author : Cynthia Saltzman
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1999-04-01
  • ISBN : 0140254870
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book The Portrait of Dr Gachet written by Cynthia Saltzman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a star-studded auction in 1990, a painting was sold for the record-breaking price of $82.5 million. That painting, Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, has seemed to countless admirers to portray our times as "something bright in spite of its inevitable griefs." This fascinating book reconstructs the painting's journey and becomes a rich story of modernist art and the forces behind the art market. Masterfully evoked are the lives of the thirteen extraordinary people who owned the painting and shaped its history: avant-garde European collectors, pioneering dealers in Paris and Berlin, a brilliant medievalist who acquired it for one of Germany's great museums, and a member of the Nazi elite who sold it after it had been confiscated as a work of "degenerate art." Remarkable and riveting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet illuminates, in dramatic detail, the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time.

Book The Culture of Diagram

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  • Author : John Bender
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-20
  • ISBN : 0804745056
  • Pages : 551 pages

Download or read book The Culture of Diagram written by John Bender and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.

Book Scandal on Stage

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  • Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009-09-24
  • ISBN : 0521112605
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Scandal on Stage written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how the outrage caused by controversial plays or productions reflects the moral standards of the time.

Book Artistic Relations

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  • Author : Peter Collier
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300060096
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Artistic Relations written by Peter Collier and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative volume, literary critics and art historians explore the relationship between literature and the visual arts in 19th-century France. Eighteen leading scholars, including Pierre Bourdieu, Germaine Greer, Segolene Le Men, Roger Cardinal and Mary Ann Caws analyse contemporary forms of representation to reveal the rich variety of factors that link image and text.

Book Art of Illusion

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  • Author : Dan Karlholm
  • Publisher : Peter Lang
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9783039109586
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Art of Illusion written by Dan Karlholm and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To survey art history as a whole was a pressing task for a generation of German scholars around the mid-nineteenth century. Their projections of a historicist chain of artworks ranged from textual narratives without illustrations, to separate picture compendia as well as images of a more allegorical kind. Other means with which to picture art history as part of a virtually all-encompassing cultural history were the museums of art erected in Germany at the time, in Berlin and Munich especially. This book deals with practices of representing art history in various media. This includes post-Hegelian texts and engravings of art history from the 1840s onwards, by Franz Kugler, Julius Schnorr and others. In addition, works of art of the late twentieth century, by Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer and others, provide opportunities to speculate on the after-effects and discursive traces of the old regime. Extending the concept of historiography to include not just textual or institutional endeavours, but a host of different images as well, from reproductive prints to pop paintings and visual archives of the digital era, this study is intended to contribute in new ways to a critical historiography of the field of art history and visual culture today.

Book Free Access to the Past

Download or read book Free Access to the Past written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Europe, nostalgia and modernization embraced around 1800: the rise of historicism coincided with the emergence of the modern nation-state. Poetical, cultural changes intersected with political, institutional ones: a Romantic taste for medieval or tribal antiquity benefited from a modernization-driven transfer of cultural relics into the public sphere. This process involved the establishment of museums, libraries, archives and university institutes, as well as the dissemination of historical knowledge through text editions, philological studies, historical novels, plays, operas and paintings, monuments and restorations. Antiquaries, philologists and historians produced a new past and rendered history a matter of public, national interest and collective identification. This international and interdisciplinary collection explores the romantic-historicist complexities at the root of the modern nation-state. Contributors are Ellinoor Bergvelt, Eveline G. Bouwers, Peter Fritzsche, Paula Henrikson, Sharon Ann Holt, Lotte Jensen, Krisztina Lajosi, Joep Leerssen, Susanne Legêne, Marita Mathijsen, Mathias Meirlaen, Peter Rietbergen, Anne-Marie Thiesse, and Robert Verhoogt.

Book Art Wars

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  • Author : Rachel N. Klein
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2020-06-19
  • ISBN : 0812296885
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Art Wars written by Rachel N. Klein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth century From the antebellum era through the Gilded Age, New York City's leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. In the decades before the Civil War, art promoters believed that aesthetic taste could foster national unity and assuage urban conflicts; by the 1880s such hopes had faded, and the taste for art assumed more personal connotations associated with consumption and domestic decoration. Art Wars chronicles three protracted public battles that marked this transformation. The first battle began in 1849 and resulted in the downfall of the American Art-Union, the most popular and influential art institution in North America at mid-century. The second erupted in 1880 over the Metropolitan Museum's massive collection of Cypriot antiquities, which had been plundered and sold to its trustees by the man who became the museum's first paid director. The third escalated in the mid-1880s and forced the Metropolitan Museum to open its doors on Sunday—the only day when working people were able to attend. In chronicling these disputes, Rachel N. Klein considers cultural fissures that ran much deeper than the specific complaints that landed protagonists in court. New York's major nineteenth-century art institutions came under intense scrutiny not only because Americans invested them with moral and civic consequences but also because they were part and parcel of explosive processes associated with the rise of industrial capitalism. Elite New Yorkers spearheaded the creation of the Art-Union and the Metropolitan, but those institutions became enmeshed in popular struggles related to slavery, immigration, race, industrial production, and the rights of working people. Art Wars examines popular engagement with New York's art institutions and illuminates the changing cultural role of art exhibition over the course of the nineteenth century.

Book The Next Thing

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  • Author : Pablo Baler
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
  • Release : 2013-06-12
  • ISBN : 1611474523
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Next Thing written by Pablo Baler and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is a highly visual collection of essays about the future of art and the art of the future. This anthology brings together writings by world-renown theorists, artists, critics, novelists and philosophers, all of them engaged in current discussions about new and emerging artistic trends and sensibilities. From “post-human” installations, to transgenic experimentations, from tele-presence performance, to nano design, digital-fiction, virtual urbanism or “guerilla art”, new tendencies, are redefining both the boundaries of Meaning and what it means to be Human. The essays comprising The Next Thing identify the impact of these new trends and anticipate possible zeitgeists that will define our century. This anthology counts with contributions by Stelarc, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia, Mieke Bal, Polona Tratnik, Hagi Kenaan, Sue “Johnny” Golding, Pablo Baler, Mark Axelrod, Glenn Harper, Jan Garden Castro, Salima Hashmi, Rashid Rana, Huma Mulji, Ajesha Jatoi, Quddus Mirza, and Naazish Ata-Ullah. Like the artworks here discussed, the book itself is endowed with a transformative power and a subversive understanding of the limits of human identity. The Next Thing challenges perception, defies our imagination and pushes the boundaries of both ethics and aesthetics. For more information on The Next Thing and Pablo Baler, please visit: http://www.pablobaler.com/.

Book The Museums of Contemporary Art

Download or read book The Museums of Contemporary Art written by J. Pedro Lorente and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented. Following an introduction that sets out the historiography and considering questions of terminology, the first part of the book then examines the paradigm of the Musée des Artistes Vivants in Paris and its equivalents in the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century. The second part takes the story forward from 1930 to the present, presenting New York's Museum of Modern Art as a new universal role model that found emulators or 'contramodels' in the rest of the Western world during the twentieth century. An epilogue, reviews recent museum developments in the last decades. Through its adoption of a long-term, worldwide perspective, the book not only provides a narrative of the development of museums of contemporary art, but also sets this into its international perspective. By assessing the extent to which the great museum-capitals - Paris, London and New York in particular - created their own models of museum provision, as well as acknowledging the influence of such models elsewhere, the book uncovers fascinating perspectives on the practice of museum provision, and reveals how present cultural planning initiatives have often been shaped by historical uses.