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Oskar Bätschmann - Art Public, Inbunden

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Art Public

A Short History

Av Oskar Bätschmann

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Although the idea of a collective audience for art – an ‘art public’ – is highly significant in the art world, this is the first book to enquire into the actual history of the art public. The book explores both written and pictorial evidence of its behaviour, and disentangles the connections between art production, the expectations of the audience and a work’s reception.Two aspects shape the narrative: first, the transformation of the audience from passive recipient to active agent; and second, the mockery of the audience by satirists such as George Cruikshank, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier and many others. This sweeping account moves from the Greek artist Apelles to Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, and from Oscar Wilde to film stars, art tourists and leading art museums and galleries worldwide.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-06-01
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 588 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 9781789146943
  • Översättare: Nick Somers
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Oskar Bätschmann is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Art History at the University of Bern. His books include Hans Holbein (Reaktion Books, 1997, Revised and Expanded Second Edition 2013) and Giovanni Bellini (Reaktion Books, 2007).

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Bätschmann’s enriching commentary on art, culture, and who it “belongs” to is bolstered by lucid historical detail and analysis. It’s a boon to artists and museumgoers. - Publishers WeeklyThe abundance of different types of sources in this book, from the antique to the present, produces an astonishing history of the public. We read about artworks, as well as remarks by artists, art theorists, connoisseurs and critics on the history of exhibitions, auctions and collections and much more. There is no other book so far with such a richness of sources and aspects concerning the public sphere. It should produce a new area of research. - Werner Busch, Professor of Art History, Freie Universität BerlinThe Art Public offers a wide-ranging, deeply erudite and highly entertaining inquiry into a central notion of the art world. In analysing a stupendous array of historical references, texts and images, Bätschmann traces the emergence of competing interests and repeating tropes that have governed the changing conceptions of the public. Visions notoriously differ as to who is included and who is excluded, who is recognised and who is mocked, but after reading this beautifully illustrated book we are left in no doubt: the art public as such may be an empty signifier, but it is nonetheless vital for art and culture. - Charlotte Klonk, Professor of Art History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and author of Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000Bätschmann wears his great learning lightly. Illustrated by a sequence of evocative images, this study is a wonderfully wide-ranging and cogent analysis of the reception of art across the ages. - Stephen Bann, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol

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