Marketing modernism in fin-de-siècle Europe

The commercial success of modernism, argues Robert Jensen, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jensen, Robert, 1954-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv24rgc3p
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. "This painting sells"
  • Ch. 2. "The circle of dealers"
  • Ch. 3. Rhetoric from the Battlefield: Innovation and Independence
  • Ch. 4. The Retrospective
  • Ch. 5. The Juste Milieu International
  • Ch. 6. Secessionism
  • Ch. 7. The Rise of the Impressionist Weltanschauung
  • Ch. 8. Der Fall Meier-Graefe
  • Postscript: 1905.