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A table of contents in German, titled Inhalt, on a white page. On the left is a dedication: Für MTh and G & K & L. The main column on the right lists chapter titles and page numbers, beginning with Prolog on page 10 and ending with Dank on page 199.
A two-page spread from a book written in German, open to the chapter titled Prolog. The pages, numbered 10 and 11, are filled with black text in a serif font, discussing art history and the art public. Footnotes are marked with superscript numbers.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page features a photograph by Thomas Struth showing a crowd of visitors, including schoolchildren in uniforms, viewing the painting Las Meninas in the Prado Museum. The right page contains German text under the headline Der Anteil des Publikums. Page numbers 14 and 15 are at the bottom.
An open book showing a two-page spread of academic text in German. The left page is numbered 44 with the footer Das Kunstpublikum. The right page, numbered 45, has a large, bold heading that reads Sensationelle Attraktionen.
A page from a book in German featuring the 1810 painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly, The Public Viewing David's Coronation in the Louvre. The painting shows a large crowd of people in early 19th-century clothing gathered in a gallery to view the monumental painting of Napoleon's coronation on the far wall.
A page from a book showing a colored caricature by Louis-Léopold Boilly, titled Les amateurs de tableaux. A group of men and one woman in early 19th-century attire crowd together, peering intently at a small framed painting with comical, exaggerated expressions of concentration. Some use spectacles and a magnifying glass for a closer look.
A page from a book displaying the painting A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 by William Powell Frith. The artwork shows a large, dense crowd of elegantly dressed Victorians in a grand art gallery. Men in top hats and women in elaborate gowns socialize and observe the numerous paintings that cover the walls from floor to ceiling in a salon-style hanging.
A black-and-white image of a two-page spread from a German book. The chapter is titled Grinsen, Lachen, Spotten. The right-hand page features a 1781 print by William Angus, showing an 18th-century crowd in a gallery viewing a large painting titled The Death of Lord Chatham in the House of Peers.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page features a colorful 1811 caricature by Thomas Rowlandson titled John Bull at the Italian Opera, showing a singer in costume on stage and a boisterous audience. The right page displays a black-and-white 1786 engraving by Johan Frederick Clemens above several paragraphs of German text.
A page from a German book titled Die Massen. On the left is a column of text. On the right are two historical illustrations from 1878 with captions. The top image is a color drawing of a crowd in front of the ornate Palais du Champ-de-Mars. The bottom image is a black and white drawing of people inside an art exhibition.
An open book displays pages 132 and 133 in German. The left page features Édouard Manet's painting Lola von Valencia, a portrait of a woman in an ornate, floral Spanish-style dress holding a fan. The right page features Benjamin Vautier's painting Bauern im Museum, showing a group of people in traditional clothing viewing art in a gallery.
A two-page spread from a German publication titled Die Befragung in Dresden 1871. The left page shows two artworks: a black-and-white piece by Edgar Degas of Mary Cassatt in the Louvre, and a color painting by Edouard Vuillard of a crowded gallery with red walls. The right page consists of a large block of German text.
A page from a book showing a column of German text on the left and a color illustration on the right. The 1871 illustration by Alfred Richard Diethe shows a group of people in 19th-century attire viewing two large paintings of the Madonna and Child in a gallery. A woman in the foreground sits on a chair and looks at the art through opera glasses.
A two-page spread from a book with German text laid out in two columns. The left page, numbered 156, has the title Große Player in a large, bold font. The right page is numbered 157.
A two-page spread from a book in German. On the left, a photograph shows a large crowd of people in a museum gallery, holding up cameras and phones to see the Mona Lisa. A caption below identifies it as a crowd of pilgrims from 2005. On the right, under the heading Epilog, is a block of text. The page numbers are 164 and 165.
The cover of Das Kunstpublikum: Eine kurze Geschichte by Oskar Bärschmann, with blue and black text on a pale yellow background.
The cover of the book Das Kunstpublikum Eine kurze Geschichte by Oskar Bärschmann on a pale yellow background with blue and black text.
Das Kunstpublikum
Eine kurze Geschichte
€ 24.00
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Author: Oskar Bätschmann
Designed by: Neil Holt
September 2023, 200 Pages, 54 Photos
Paperback with Flaps
140mm x 210mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5527-6

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| Art History Begins to Discover the Audience for Art
Alongside production and distribution, reception is the third major field of research in art history. Most of the time, the focus of this research is on individual reception. Das Kunstpublikum. Eine kurze Geschichte, on the other hand, examines for the first time the significance of a necessary but usually overlooked actor in the art world. Pictorial and written references from all periods document the behavior of the public and the different assessments by artists, collectors, and critics. Bätschmann shows that the experts in the art system always oscillate between two extremes: they are either skeptical of the public and disdain its taste, or they flatter the masses and want their applause.

OSKAR BÄTSCHMANN (*1943) is one of the most important art historians of our time. He has taught in Zurich, Freiburg i.Br., Giessen, and Bern, and has had extended research fellowships at the Getty Center, Santa Monica, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Bätschmann's books, including Einführung in die kunstgeschichtliche Hermeneutik and The Artist in the Modern World, are considered classics of the field.
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