This collection explores Britain's struggle to carve a niche for itself on the international art scene. International scholars shed new light on such notions as the internationalization of the art market; the emergence of an increasingly complex exhibition culture; issues of national rivalry; artists' strategies for their own promotion; the persistent anti-commercialism of an elite group of art lovers and critics and accusations of philistinism levelled at the middle classes. Specific case studies include Whistler, Roger Fry, Damien Hirst, and Charles Saatchi; essays consider art markets from London and Manchester to Paris and Flanders.…mehr
This collection explores Britain's struggle to carve a niche for itself on the international art scene. International scholars shed new light on such notions as the internationalization of the art market; the emergence of an increasingly complex exhibition culture; issues of national rivalry; artists' strategies for their own promotion; the persistent anti-commercialism of an elite group of art lovers and critics and accusations of philistinism levelled at the middle classes. Specific case studies include Whistler, Roger Fry, Damien Hirst, and Charles Saatchi; essays consider art markets from London and Manchester to Paris and Flanders.
Dr Charlotte Gould is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan, she is Senior Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and works on contemporary British art. Dr Sophie Mesplède is Senior Lecturer at Université Rennes 2, where she works on eighteenth-century British art.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Introduction: from Hogarth to Hirst. 300 years of buying and selling British art, Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède; Part I An Artist's Livelihood: Whistler between the British and French art markets, Grischka Petri; From conscription to the Depression: the market for British art in London c. 1914-1930, Andrew Stephenson; Art without commerce in Northern England 1980-2000, Gabriel N. Gee; Beautiful Inside My Head for Ever: the realignment of the artist and the art market in Great Britain in the 21st century, Uta Protz. Part II Dealers, Auctioneers and (Super)Collectors: In search of a British connection: Flemish dealers on the London art market and the taste for Continental painting (1750-1800), Dries Lyna; 'Making pictures marketable': expertise and the Georgian art market, Bénédicte Miyamoto; Traversing objects: the London art market at the turn of the 20th century, Anne Helmreich; The Fine Art Society and the rise of the solo exhibition, Patricia de Montfort; The collector as phoenix: can Charles Saatchi rise from the ashes?, Chin-tao Wu. Part III Negotiating Artistic Aspirations and Middle-Class Values: Copies on the market in 18th-century Britain, Bärbel Küster; 'One must become half-Catholic': William Beckford (1760-1844) as 'impolite and uncommercial' aesthete, Laurent Châtel; 'English pictures are but little known and esteemed out of England': the Royal Academy of Arts and the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle, Guillaume Evrard; Modernism, commerce and Roger Fry's Omega Workshops, Anne-Pascale Bruneau-Rumsey; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction: from Hogarth to Hirst. 300 years of buying and selling British art, Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède; Part I An Artist's Livelihood: Whistler between the British and French art markets, Grischka Petri; From conscription to the Depression: the market for British art in London c. 1914-1930, Andrew Stephenson; Art without commerce in Northern England 1980-2000, Gabriel N. Gee; Beautiful Inside My Head for Ever: the realignment of the artist and the art market in Great Britain in the 21st century, Uta Protz. Part II Dealers, Auctioneers and (Super)Collectors: In search of a British connection: Flemish dealers on the London art market and the taste for Continental painting (1750-1800), Dries Lyna; 'Making pictures marketable': expertise and the Georgian art market, Bénédicte Miyamoto; Traversing objects: the London art market at the turn of the 20th century, Anne Helmreich; The Fine Art Society and the rise of the solo exhibition, Patricia de Montfort; The collector as phoenix: can Charles Saatchi rise from the ashes?, Chin-tao Wu. Part III Negotiating Artistic Aspirations and Middle-Class Values: Copies on the market in 18th-century Britain, Bärbel Küster; 'One must become half-Catholic': William Beckford (1760-1844) as 'impolite and uncommercial' aesthete, Laurent Châtel; 'English pictures are but little known and esteemed out of England': the Royal Academy of Arts and the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle, Guillaume Evrard; Modernism, commerce and Roger Fry's Omega Workshops, Anne-Pascale Bruneau-Rumsey; Bibliography; Index.
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