
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Prologue
- 1 The Public Component
- 2 Hierarchical Categories
- 3 The Apelles Problem
- 4 Public Judgement
- 5 Sensational Attractions
- 6 Enjoyment, Education and Enlightenment
- 7 The Fruitful Public
- 8 Sensitive and Moved
- 9 Grinning, Laughing, Mocking
- 10 The Masses
- 11 Mourning Crowds
- 12 Esteemed Public
- 13 The 1871 Survey in Dresden
- 14 Aesthetic Education
- 15 Major Players
- Epilogue
- REFERENCES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX