| Description |
xvi, 183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Summary |
"This beautiful full-color book tells the stories of rivalries that not only stimulated and benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but also help shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
List of Figures -- Foreword: Are artists a bit "bizarre"? / Martin Kemp -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sympathy for the devil -- 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: When the best artists are "bad" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index. |
| Subject |
Artists -- Professional relationships.
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Art and society.
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Art publicity.
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Scandals in art.
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Art and society. (OCoLC)fst00815432
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Art publicity. (OCoLC)fst00815793
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Artists -- Professional relationships.
(OCoLC)fst00817611
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Scandals in art. (OCoLC)fst01106364
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| Added Author |
Kemp, Martin, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Charney, Noah. Devil in the gallery Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2021] 9781538138656 (DLC) 2020052103 |
| ISBN |
9781538138649 (hardcover ; cloth) |
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1538138646 (hardcover ; cloth) |
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9781538138656 (epub) |
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