The Copying of Motifs and Stylistic Imitation in Netherlandish Art and in Art Theoretical Treatises of around 1600
| Autor: | Caecilie Weissert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Viator. 36:583-602 |
| ISSN: | 2031-0234 0083-5897 |
| DOI: | 10.1484/j.viator.2.300023 |
| Popis: | In 1642 Philips Angels took up the issue of artistic appropriation and copying with reference to the art theory of Karel van Mander. Angels’s comments illustrate that between 1604, the date of publication of van Mander’s Schilder-Boeck, and Angels’s reading before the Lukasgilde in 1642, the conception of artistic citation and copying had fundamentally changed. This change can be traced particularly well in court records of the period. It becomes clear that reproductive technologies generated by an expanding market for copies had fundamentally altered not only artistic practice and theoretical conceptions but also ultimately the criteria for the evaluation of what was deemed to constitute a successful artwork. The proof of authenticity, authorship, and the unique existence of a composition, which became a feature of the artistic production process due to the exigencies of the market, also became a constituent element of art theory and of eulogizing the collector, and one of the most important criteria for... |
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