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The Art Public
A brief intellectual history of the idea of the art public. The Art Public explores the history of efforts to imagine a collective, general audience for art in the world. Oskar Bätschmann explores both written and pictorial evidence of the development of the “art public” as an idea and disentangles connections between art production, audiences, and actual reception. Two aspects shape the narrative: the transformation of the audience from passive recipient to active agent as well as satirical jabs at audiences by the likes of Cruikshank, Rowlandson, and Daumier. This sweeping account connects the ancient Greeks with Renaissance painters, modern writers, and contemporary movie stars in a deft survey of the ways we imagine art’s immediate impact on audiences and its afterlives in museums, galleries, and the world.
Out of a Gray Fog
“As to Europe—keep it in a gray, ominous, evil fog.”—Ayn Rand (1905–1982) thus commented on the role of Europe in her key novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). The same could be said of the way Europe features in her own biography and in the general perception of her persona. Even though Rand was born in pre-revolutionary Russia, she is nowadays considered anAmerican phenomenon, whose reach ends at the Atlantic shore. This book lifts the "gray fog" cast over her relationship with Europe, retracing the changing perception of the continent in both her fiction and thought. Her apparent lack of success with European readers is often explained by allegedly different reading tastes. However, a look at her publication history and reception shows that many factors played a role why her work found fewer European than US readers. Finally, an archipelago of European readers and admirers emerges which is testament to Rand's impact on European art and politics.
Romantik 2022
“Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms” is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative research across disciplinary borders. It aims to advance new historical discoveries, forward-looking theoretical insights and cutting-edge methodological approaches. The articles range over the full variety of cultural practices, including the written word, visual arts, history, philosophy, religion, and theatre during the romantic period (c. 1780–1840). But contributions to the discussion of pre- or post-romantic representations are also welcome. Since the romantic era was characterized by an emphasis on the vernacular, the title of the journal has been chosen to reflect the Germanic root of the word. But the journal is interested in all European romanticisms – and not least the connections and disconnections between them – hence, the use of the plural in the subtitle.
Display of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550–1750
This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social ...
Sculpture and the Nordic Region
Histories of sculpture within the Nordic region are under-studied and the region?s influence upon and translation of influences from elsewhere in Europe remain insufficiently traced. This volume brings to light individual histories of sculptural mobility from the early modern period onwards. Examining the movement of sculptures, sculptors, practices, skills, styles and motifs across borders, through studios and public architectures, within popular and print culture and via texts, the essays collected here consider the extent to which the sculptural artwork is changed by its physical movement and its transfigurations in other media. How does the meaning and form of these objects performativel...
The Aesthetics of Matter
It has often been argued that the arrival of the early-20th-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. This third volume of the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies sheds light on the full range and import of this aspect in avant-garde and modernist aesthetics across all art forms and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The book’s contributions, written by experts from some 20 coun...
Bertel Thorvaldsen - celebrity
Welche Strategien und Mechanismen trugen dazu bei, die öffentliche Persona des dänischen Bildhauers Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844) zu erschaffen? Die Autorin betrachtet die Verbreitung seines Ruhms und des beispiellosen Künstlerkults um Thorvaldsen als Teil einer celebrity-Kultur, die in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Europa entstanden ist und die auf medialer Vermittlung basiert. Der Fokus richtet sich auf Visualisierungen des Künstlerkults, angefangen bei Thorvaldsens eigenen Werken und zeitgenössischen Porträts über seine Ateliers in Italien und Dänemark bis hin zu seinem,von ihm selbst initiierten Museum in Kopenhagen, das zugleich sein Mausoleum werden sollte.
Sculpture Workshops as Space and Concept
This book explores the multifaceted aspects of sculptor’s workshops from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. Contributors take a fresh look at the sculptor’s workshop as both a physical and discursive space. By studying some of the most prominent artists’ sculptural practices, the workshop appears as a multifaced, sociable and practical space. The book creates a narrative in which the sculptural workshop appears as a working laboratory where new measuring techniques, new materials and new instruments were tested and became part of the lived experience of the artist and central to the works coming into being. Artists covered include Donatello, Roubilliac, Thorvaldsen, Canova, and Christian Daniel Rauch. The book will be of interest to scholars studying art history, sculpture, artist workshops, and European studies.
Das Zusammenspiel der Materialien in den Künsten
Die in den Geisteswissenschaften gegenwärtig intensiv geführte Diskussion über den Begriff des Materials bzw. der Materialität wird mit diesem Band um eine grundsätzliche Dimension erweitert: um die möglichen Interaktions-, Transfer- und Interferenzmodi verschiedener Materialien bzw. Materialitäten in künstlerischen Medien. Das Spektrum der Beiträge reicht dabei von materialästhetischen Grundlagendiskussionen in der Philosophie über Fragen der Intermaterialität aus Sicht der Literatur-, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften bis zu Fallstudien intermaterialer Konstellationen vom Barock bis in die Gegenwart.
Ehrregime
Ehrungen sind ein gesellschaftliches Problem: Seit Jahren brechen in Deutschland Debatten über Straßennamen und Ehrenbürger auf, stehen koloniale, nationalsozialistische oder militärische Traditionen in der Kritik. Der Sammelband greift diese Debatten auf, um der Geschichte von Ehrungen in deutschen und europäischen Städten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert nachzuspüren. Im Fokus stehen Auseinandersetzungen um die Benennung von Straßen und Gebäuden, beim Errichten von Denkmälern, bei der Verleihung von Ehrenbürgerschaften oder bei der Widmung von Briefmarken. Damit geht es um Zusammenhänge zwischen Ehrungen, sozialen Normen und Ordnungen, zwischen Räumen, Objekten und Identitäten und ...
