“Recent Acquisitions (And Some Thoughts on the Current Art Market)” Exhibition
Galerie St. Etienne
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The art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto, who died last year, was instrumental in describing and reifying the concept of the “art world”: an amalgamation of collectors, dealers, artists, curators, critics and art historians who have the power, collectively, to determine what is, or is not, art. A urinal ceases to be a plumbing fixture when the art world recognizes it as a vessel filled with artistic meaning. Removed from the bathroom and installed in a museum, the urinal becomes a work of art through the simple magic of re-contextualization. Danto’s art world is hermetic and tautological; a coven of self-anointed insiders. Whereas the early modernists (including the urinal’s “creator,” Marcel Duchamp) reviled the art establishment, the contemporary art world institutionalizes the avant-garde.
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Schedule
from July 15, 2014 to September 26, 2014
Artist(s)
Dimitrije Basicevic (Mangelos), Ilija Bosilj Basicevic, Max Beckmann, James Castle, Otto Dix, Madge Gill, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Frank Jones, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Augustin Lesage, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Michel Nedjar, Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Egon Schiele, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Adolf Wölfli