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Text: English
Original Language: German
The Artist in the Modern World: The Conflict between Market and Self-Expression FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book investigates the history of the modern artist whose new connections with the exhibition of art in institutional settings profoundly changed the definition of art, the artist's view of himself, the problems of the artist, and the artists social status. Oskar Bﾽtschmann explores the rise of the modern artist from the development of the first exhibition pictures by John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West to the innovations of the twentieth-century star-artists like Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol who themselves became exhibition objects.
FROM THE CRITICS
David Carrier
[Batschmann] implies that treating artworks as commodities is somehow at odds with seeking self-expression.....[Howeverthe]reason some few artists have achieved fame...is precisely that they have identified original forms of self-expression. —Art Journal
David Carrier
[Batschmann] implies that treating artworks as commodities is somehow at odds with seeking self-expression.....[However, the]reason some few artists have achieved fame...is precisely that they have identified original forms of self-expression. -- Art Journal
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