Vika Kirchenbauer Compassion and Inconvenience funded by Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
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| Publisher | Mousse Publishing |
| ISBN | 9788867496853 |
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Both contributions engage with the cultural scene of mid-18th-century London, when contemporary art was first presented to the public. In a context deeply entangled with early capitalism and British colonialism, an emerging artistic elite decisively shaped how, for whom, and under what conditions art entered the public sphere. Moral-philosophical concepts and artists’ emotions - particularly around compassion and inconvenience - played key roles in embedding ideas of superiority and systems of dominance at the heart of European notions of art and taste. By tracing the historical roots of contemporary art exhibitions, this reader examines the conditions under which what we now take as self-evident came into being.
| 128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English |
Mousse Publishing
