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Published by Hildesheim, Zürich und New York Georg Olms Verlag., 2011
ISBN 10: 3487146304ISBN 13: 9783487146300
Seller: Antiquariat Rainer Schlicht, Berlin, Germany
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Ca. 24,5 x 17,5 cm. XXX Seiten, 382 Seiten. Illustrierter Original-Halbleinenband mit 2 Lesebändchen. (= Studien zur Kunstgeschichte. Band 191). Oberes Kapital minimal bestoßen. Schönes Exemplar.
Published by Hildesheim: Olms Vlg. 2011., 2011
Seller: Antiquariat Bergische Bücherstube Mewes, Overath, Germany
XIV/776 S. mit 24 farbigen und 187 s/w-Abb. Halb-Leinen. Ever since John Ruskin dismissed James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) as a coxcomb asking exaggerated prices for bad paintings, the American artist has been labeled an entrepreneurial self-promoter. For the first time, this study examines in detail the economic side of Whistler s entire career. The artist s professional trajectories are traced with the help of a database recording prices for his works between 1855 and 1903, making the structure of his international lifetime markets transparent. The book analyses Whistler s exhibition strategies in London, Paris and New York, and the artist s relationships with patrons and institutions. Whistler s transactions with art dealers, commercial galleries and collectors are examined, and business aspects of his artistic decisions are discussed together with commercial implications of the Aesthetic Movement. Whistler emerges as a first modernist successfully making up strategies of distinction. A complement to the existing Whistler catalogues raisonnés and biographies focusing on the aspect of art economy, this study is a valuable reference work. Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler has been awarded the Lempertz Prize for Art History.