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Photography and the Arts - Essays on 19th Century Practices and Debates (Paperback)
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Photography and the Arts - Essays on 19th Century Practices and Debates (Paperback)
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Photography, both in the form of contemporary practice and that of
historical material, now occupies a significant place in the
citadels of Western art culture. It has an institutional network of
its own, embedded within the broader art world, with its own
specialists including critics, curators, collectors, dealers and
conservators. All of this cultural activity consolidates an
artistic practice and critical discourse of photography that
distinguishes what is increasingly termed 'art photography' from
its commercial, scientific and amateur guises. But this
long-awaited recognition of photography as high art brings new
challenges. How will photography's newly privileged place in the
art world affect how the history of creative photography is
written? Modernist claims for the medium as having an aesthetic
often turned on precedents from painting. Postmodernism challenged
a cultural hierarchy organized around painting. Nineteenth-century
photographs move between the symbolic spaces of the gallery wall
and the archive: de-contextualized for art and re-contextualized
for history. But what of the contemporary writings, images, and
practices that negotiated an aesthetic status for 'the
photographic'? Photography and the Arts revisits practices both
celebrated and elided by the modernist and postmodernist grand
narratives of art and photographic history in order to open up new
critical spaces. Written by leading scholars in the fields of
photography, art and literature, the book examines the metaphorical
as well as the material exchanges between photography and the fine,
graphic, reproductive and sculptural arts.
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