Author: Paris (France). Banque nationalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Money in art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Social World of Galleries
Author: Alain QueminPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350370940
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States. Based on the author's field research carried out for over a decade, and combining ethnographic material with quantitative data, the book reveals the major role galleries play in the creation of art value. Despite being pillars of the art market, there has been very little in-depth research on galleries, especially when compared with the analysis of artists, critics, and dealers. Written by a sociologist who has spent a decade as an art critic, the book builds on work conducted by art historian and sociologist Raymonde Moulin from the 1960s to the 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews with those working in the field today, it provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of what contemporary art galleries really are: the spaces they occupy both physically and online; their position within gallery 'districts'; their relation to art fairs and biennials; and how friendship with clients is built and trends within the business, in turn illuminating the hierarchized structure of the sector. The book concludes by addressing a significant gap in data on the art market by providing a sociological ranking of international contemporary art galleries. Offering a detailed analysis to a topic that has never been fully studied, The Social World of Galleries is essential reading for scholars and students of art sociology, art history and art business, as well as gallerists, collectors or art lovers, and artists themselves.
The Studio
Author: 
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738184669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Recherches Sur L'art Statuaire Considéré Chez Les Anciens Et Les Modernes Ou Mémoire Sur Cette Question Proposée Par L'Institut National de France
Author: Toussaint-Bernard Emeric-DavidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Work of Art
Author: Anthea CallenPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178023418X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In The Work of Art, Anthea Callen analyzes the self-portraits, portraits of fellow artists, photographs, prints, and studio images of prominent nineteenth-century French Impressionist painters, exploring the emergence of modern artistic identity and its relation to the idea of creative work. Landscape painting in general, she argues, and the “plein air” oil sketch in particular were the key drivers of change in artistic practice in the nineteenth century—leading to the Impressionist revolution. Putting the work of artists from Courbet and Cézanne to Pissaro under a microscope, Callen examines modes of self-representation and painting methods, paying particular attention to the painters’ touch and mark-making. Using innovative methods of analysis, she provides new and intriguing ways of understanding material practice within its historical moment and the cultural meanings it generates. Richly illustrated with 180 color and black-and-white images, The Work of Art offers fresh insights into the development of avant-garde French painting and the concept of the modern artist.
Flaubert
Author: Mary OrrPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198159698
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Here, Mary Orr offers a new approach to Flaubert's fiction and to the field of gender studies. Various received ideas about Flaubert, his novels, patriarchy, realism and the primacy of gender over sex are re-evaluated.
Aesthetics Literature and Life
Author: Carla CarmonaPublisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8869772497
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
The complex relationship between life and the arts has always been a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. The essays in this book discuss fundamental issues of modern and contemporary aesthetics, drawing upon the work of the French philosopher Jean- Pierre Cometti, a key figure in the studies of aesthetics, pragmatism, and Austrian philosophy. The volume covers a wide-range of topics, from the examination of fundamental principles of art and literary criticism to a new understanding of the Modernist notion of art. It proposes an anthropological aesthetics using Musil’s The Man Without Qualities or the analysis of literary characters such as Tolstoj’s Hadji Murat and Cervantes’ Don Quixote as a tool to cast light on themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Editors Carla Carmona and Jerrold Levinson have brought together renowned voices in the field of philosophy to offer a window onto Cometti’s philosophical work, as well as an in-depth analysis of contemporary artistic and aesthetic practices, in an effort to overcome what can sometimes appear as a gulf between art and life.
Value in Art
Author: Henry M. SayrePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022680982X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, "high in value" and "low in value." In this book, Henry Sayre traces the origins of this usage in one of art history's most famous and racially charged paintings, Manet's Olympia. Masterfully researched and argued, this bold study reveals the extraordinary weight of history and politics that Manet's painting bears, and the presence of slavery at modernism's roots. Sayre shows that it was Émile Zola who introduced a new "law of values" to art criticism in an 1867 essay on Manet. Unpacking the intricate contexts of Zola's essay and of several related paintings of Manet, Sayre argues that Zola's use of the economic metaphor of "value" was doubly coded. On the one hand, it was a feint that deflected attention away from Olympia's actual subject and toward the painting's formal qualities. On the other, Sayre argues, "value" for Zola was a trope for the political economy of slavery and the Second Empire's complicity in the ongoing slave trade in the Americas. Value in Art is a surprising and necessary intervention in our understanding of modern art's emergence in relation to issues of race"--
The Report of the President
Author: Queen's University of BelfastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Author: