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The Devil in the Gallery - How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World (Hardcover)
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The Devil in the Gallery - How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World (Hardcover)
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Scandal, Shock and Rivalry Can Be an Artist's Best Friends Scandal,
shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They
can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff
of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin. But these
potentially disastrous "negatives" can and have spurred the world
of fine art to new heights. A look at the history of art tells us
that rivalries have, in fact, not only benefited the course of art,
from ancient times to the present, but have also helped shape our
narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might
otherwise lack, and therefore drawing the interest of a public who
might not be drawn to the objects alone. There would be no Sistine
Chapel by Michelangelo had rival Raphael not tricked the pope into
assigning him the commission, certain that Michelangelo, who had
never before worked with frescoes, would botch the job and become a
laughing stock. Scandal and shock have proven to be powerful
weapons when harnessed and wielded willfully and well. That scandal
is good for exposure has been so obviously the case that many
artists have courted it intentionally, which we will define as
shock: intentionally overturning expectations of the majority in a
way that traditionalist find dismaying or upsetting, but which a
certain minority avant-garde find exciting. From Damien Hirst
presenting the public with a shark embalmed in formaldehyde and
entombed in a glass case to Marcel Duchamp trying to convince the
art community that a urinal is a great sculpture shock has been a
key promotional tool. The Devil in the Gallery is a guided tour of
the history of art through it scandals, rivalries, and shocking
acts, each of which resulted in a positive step forward for art in
general and, in most cases, for the careers of the artists in
question. In addition to telling dozens of stories, lavishly
illustrated in full color, of such dramatic moments and arguing how
they not only affected the history of art but affected it for the
better, we will also examine the proactive role of the recipients
of these intentionally dramatic actions: The art historians, the
critics and even you, the general public. The Devil likes to lurk
in dark corners of the art world, morphing into many forms. Let us
shed light upon him.
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