Photography and the Arts - Essays on 19th Century Practices and Debates (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2022
Editors:	Juliet Hacking • Joanne Lukitsh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-28352-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
LSN:	1-350-28352-5
Barcode:	9781350283527

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