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The rise of the modern art market in London, 1850-1939 / edited by Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Economic aspects--England--London--History--19th century.
- Art.
- Art--Economic aspects--England--London--History--20th century.
- Art dealers--England--London--History--19th century.
- Art dealers.
- Art dealers--England--London--History--20th century.
- History.
- Art--Economic aspects.
- England--London.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- This Fascinating Volume definitively establishes the central importance of London for the development of the modern retail market in fine art. It tracks the emergence and development of the structures and practices that have come to characterize the commercial art system, including the commercial art gallery, the professional dealer, the exhibition cycle and its accompanying rhetoric of press coverage and publicity, and an international network for the circulation of goods.
- Offering a synthetic overview of the London art market from 1850 to 1939, the book contains case study analyses by leading experts, investigating the infrastructure of the London art market and its changing cultural geography, the connections between the art market and the art press as well as the museum (both in the UK and the colonial context); and the complex career manoeuvres of artists - including the Pre-Raphaelites and women artists - navigating this new cultural terrain. The volume includes a glossary of commercial art galleries and dealers, information never before assembled in one source.
- This new commercial system involved a massive transformation of the experience of viewing art; of the relationships between artists, dealers, collectors, art objects and audiences; and of the very criteria of aesthetic value itself. Its history is thus a vital part of the history of modern art, and this anthology will be of interest to art historians as well as scholars of Victorian Studies, Museum Studies, and Social History. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The state of the field/ Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich
- 'Florid-looking speculators in Art and Virtu': the London picture trade c.1850/ Mark Westgarth
- Shopping for art: the rise of the commercial art gallery,1850s-90s/ Pamela Fletcher
- The Goupil Gallery at the intersection between London, Continent, and Empire/ Anne Helmreich
- Marketing Post-impressionism : Roger Fry's commercial exhibitions/ Anna Gruetzner Robins
- Strategies of display and modes of consumption in London art galleries in the inter-war years/ Andrew Stephenson
- The art press and the art market: the artist as 'economic man'/ Julie F. Codell
- The call of commerce: the Studio magazine in the 1920's/ Ysanne Holt
- Decorative Politics and direct pictures: Hugh Lane and the global market, 1900-15/ Morna O'Neill
- Millais in the marketplace: the crisis of the late 1850's/ Malcolm Warner
- Branding the vision: William Holman Hunt and the Victorian art market/ Brenda Rix
- Negotiating a reputation: J.M. Whistler, D.G. Rossetti, and the art market 1860-1900/Patricia Monfort
- Home from home: some Australasian artists in London, 1900-14/Pamela Gerrish Nunn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719084607
- 0719084601
- OCLC:
- 724656586
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