The artist in the modern world : the conflict between market and self-expression / Oskar Bätschmann.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bätschmann, Oskar, 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [1997]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • I. The Exhibition as a Medium for the Presentation of Art
  • Institutionalizing Exhibitions
  • Satisfying Public Taste
  • Public Patronage
  • Exhibition Pieces
  • The Business of Exhibitions
  • French Exhibition Pieces in England
  • The Problems of Critics and Artists
  • II. Freedom and the Social Function of the Artist
  • The Open Exhibition, the Artist Liberated
  • Freedom and Legitimation
  • Social Legitimation, the Advantages of the Avantgarde
  • Nostalgic Visions of the Artist
  • III. The Cult of the Artist
  • Retrospectives and Personal Museums, West and Canova
  • The Cult of the Dead Genius, Thorvaldsen's Museum
  • The Studio as the Centre of a Cult
  • The Cult of the Tragic Artist, Death and Suicide in the Studio
  • The Studio and the Sketch
  • Apotheoses
  • Self-Portraits
  • IV. Strategies and Careers
  • Arranging a Scandal
  • Aggressions and Attack
  • Group Strategies
  • Social Exiles and Prophets
  • L'Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs
  • A Messianic Artists Colony
  • V. Rebellions and the Power of Art
  • Hostility between Artists and the Public
  • Back to the Power of the Picture
  • Social and Mystical Legitimations
  • The Exhibition as a Work of Art
  • Civilized Rebels, The Irascibles
  • The Power of the Image, the Sublime
  • VI. Art for Exhibition
  • Policy and Politics
  • The Performance of the Clowns
  • Everyman Shaman
  • The Exhibition Maker as Star
  • In-Art and Out-Art
  • Art = Capital
  • Designing Experience, Installations
  • Notes to Chapter I-VI
  • Select Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Sources of Illustrations
  • Index.
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