ABSTRACT
This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. Exhbitions covered include Nathaniel Hone’s 1775 exhibition, the Holbein Exhibition of 1871, the Courbet retrospective of 1882, Titian's exhibition in Venice, Poussin's Louvre retrospective of 1960, and El Greco's anniversaty exhibitions of 2014.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|55 pages
Living artists’ retrospectives
part II|59 pages
Posthumous retrospectives
chapter 5|14 pages
The first posthumous retrospective in France
part III|68 pages
Old Master monographic exhibitions from before World War II
chapter 10|10 pages
‘This is the answer to those who tell us that Reynolds was a snob’
part IV|46 pages
Old Master monographic exhibitions after World War II
chapter 15|11 pages
Rembrandt and the polemical monographic exhibition
part V|51 pages
Monographic exhibitions and the twenty-first century