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The devil in the gallery : how scandal, shock, and rivalry shape the art world / Noah Charney ; foreword by Martin Kemp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charney, Noah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society.
- Art publicity.
- Scandals in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- The Devil in the Gallery is a guided tour of the history of art through it scandals, rivalries, and shocking acts. Award-winning art historian shares dozens of stories, lavishly illustrated in full color, of such dramatic moments and arguing how they not only affected the history of art but affected it for the better.
- Contents:
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Scandal
- Guernica and the Monumentalizing of Scandal
- Dix and the Legacy of a Victim of Scandal
- Greuze, the Académie, and the Hierarchy of Genres
- Courbet and the Rival Salons
- Whistler and the Weight of Rejection
- Manet and the Prostitutes
- Koons, Leaks, and Misunderstandings
- Malevich and Attention Seeking
- Bronzino and Shifts in Morality and Politics
- "Bad" Artists and the Fame of Scandal
- 2. Shock
- Aristotle and the Art Split
- Cattelan, Ai Weiwei, and Art as Prison Break
- Schlegl and Burning for Attention
- ISIS and the Shock of the Act against the Art
- Ofili and the Shock of the Weird
- Orozco and the Memento Mori
- Abramović and Shock through Pain
- Bernini and the Shock of the Body
- Burden and Shocks That Bit Back
- Shock as a Means to an End, Not an End unto Itself
- 3. Rivalry
- Vasari and Competition for the Greater Good
- Pliny and the Artistic Duel
- Titian and Renaissance Rivalries
- Borromini and Rivals after the Age of Vasari
- Velazquez and the Ut Pictura Poesis Debate
- Hirst and Institutional Battles
- Lysippos and Acquisition Angst
- Ai Weiwei and Patrons against Artists
- The Biennale and Modern Love-Hate Relationships
- Banksy and Rivalry in Economic Theory
- Ulay and the Frenemies
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8182-808-0
- 1-5381-3865-4
- OCLC:
- 1263870309
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