Art Celebrity

A lively and accessible study of what happens when the ‘serious’ world of art collides with celebrity.

First published in German by DuMont in 2008.

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 1.0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, course: Artists on Economy between Market and Critique, language: English, abstract: In her book “High Price – Art between the Market and Celebrity Culture”, the author Isabelle Graw analyzes and describes the relationship between symbol and market value of a work of art. Are they totally exposed or totally dependent; do they only affect themselves or do they even strive apart? All these considerations were discussed step by step and underlined by examples under various headings and contexts. She takes a look both at the art market, as well as on the goods, respectively economic market, and puts this into the context of today's existing Celebrity culture. From her words, it becomes clear that the art business, which was formerly organized according to the principle of "retail", is undergoing a major change. Deutsche Version In ihrem Buch „Der große Preis – Kunst zwischen Markt und Celebrity Kultur“ analysiert und beschreibt die Autorin Isabelle Graw, in welchem Verhältnis Symbol- und Marktwert eines Kunstwerkes zueinanderstehen. Sind sie völlig unabhängig voneinander oder doch total abhängig; beeinflussen sie sich nur oder streben sie gar voneinander weg? All diese Überlegungen diskutiert sie Schritt für Schritt und anhand von Beispielen unter verschiedenen Überschriften und Kontexten. Sie wirft einen Blick sowohl auf den Kunstmarkt, als auch auf den Waren- bzw. Wirtschaftsmarkt und setzt diese in den Kontext der heutig bestehenden Celebrity Kultur. Aus ihren Worten wird deutlich, dass der Kunstbetrieb, der ehemals nach dem Prinzip eines „Einzelhandels“ organisiert war, einen starken Wandel durchläuft. Da Graw Bezug zur Vergangenheit nimmt, die auch die heutige Zeit mitgeprägt hat, und zugleich aber auch Ereignisse, Meinungen und Themen aus der aktuellen Zeit miteinbezieht, um die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Symbol- und Marktwert zu beantworten, verbindet sie Theoriebildung und Gegenwartsdiagnostik, was den brisanten Charakter des Buches attestiert.

Explores the vibrant visual and theatrical culture of eighteenth-century England. Focuses on the central role of images in the invention of modern celebrity culture.

The secrets of great portraits are shared with photographers at every level in this resource that includes sections on cameras, illumination, film and digital, lighting set-ups, creativity and conceptualization, connecting with the subject, and having a point of view. Original.

It is Cats' Visiting Night at the Art Gallery, and cats want to see paintings with cats in them - six funny reworkings of famous paintings, each shown alongside the original masterpiece.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in Russia coincides with the dizzying pace of social change and economic transformation, the latter enabling an unprecedented fascination with glamour and its requisite extravagance; how in the 1990s and 2000s, celebrities - such as film or television stars - moved away from their home medium to become celebrities straddling various media; and how celebrity is a symbol manipulated by the dominant culture and embraced by the masses. It examines the primacy of the visual in celebrity construction and its dominance over the verbal, alongside the interdisciplinary, cross-media, post-Soviet landscape of today’s fame culture. Taking into account both general tendencies and individual celebrities, including pop-diva Alla Pugacheva and ex-President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the book analyses the internal dynamics of the institutions involved in the production, marketing, and maintenance of celebrities, as well as the larger cultural context and the imperatives that drive Russian society’s romance with glamour and celebrity.

This book offers a beautiful exploration of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's works in lithography. It explores the new artistic approach to the poster at the end of the 19th century, which bridged visual and popular culture and turned the relationship between 'high' and 'low' art on its head. Technical innovations in lithography pioneered by Lautrec and other artists produced larger sizes, more varied colours and new effects and launched the role of the poster as a powerful tool for communication and marketing in fin de siecle Paris. Lautrec's embrace of celebrity helped to define the famous hotspots (theatres, cabarets and cafe-concerts) of fin de siecle Paris and made their stars recognisable figures across the whole city. Works by contemporaries such as Pierre Bonnard, Theophile Alexandre Steinlen and Jules Cheret also feature, and Lautrec's influence on British, and particularly Scottish, artists of the period will be explored. These include Walter Richard Sickert, Arthur Melville, John Duncan Fergusson, William Nicholson and James Pryde. Exhibition: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (06.10.2018 - 20.01.2019).