Marketing modernism in fin-de-siècle Europe / Robert Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Robert, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Marketing.

Art.

Art and design.

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1996.

Summary:

In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. Here Jensen explores the economic, aesthetic, institutional, and ideological factors that led to its dominance in the international art world by the early 1900s. He emphasizes the role of the emerging dealer/gallery market and of modernist art historiographies in evaluating modern art and legitimizing it through the formation of a canon of modernist masters. In describing the canon-building of modern dealerships, Jensen considers the new "ideological dealer" and explores the commercial construction of artistic identity through such rhetorical concepts as temperament and "independent art" and through such institutional structures as the retrospective. His inquiries into the fate of the juste milieu, a group of dissidents who saw themselves as "true heirs" of Impressionism, and his look at a new form of art history emerging in Germany further expose a linear, dealer- oriented history of modernist art constructed by or through the modernists themselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE "This painting sells"

CHAPTER TWO "The circle of dealers"

CHAPTER THREE Rhetoric from the Battlefield: Innovation and Independence

CHAPTER FOUR The Retrospective

CHAPTER FIVE The Juste Milieu International

CHAPTER SIX Secessionism

CHAPTER SEVEN The Rise of the Impressionist Weltanschauung

CHAPTER EIGHT Der Fall Meier-Graefe

POSTSCRIPT 1905

Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jensen, Robert Marketing Modernism in Fin-De-Siècle Europe

ISBN:

9780691241951

OCLC:

1292356002