Art, production and market conditions: Gottfried Semper’s historical perspective on commodities and the role of museums
This paper looks at Gottfried Semper’s notions on the commodity and capitalism. When Semper attended the Great Exhibition, he realized the enormous impact that capitalist industries and interests have had on the arts. The Crystal Palace has always been at the centre of Semper scholarship but the foc...
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| Language: | English |
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/leoni.pdf |