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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| description | 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 focus has been less on capitalism than on the arts and crafts although Semper’s comments on capitalism are apparent and illustrate that he understood that everything becomes a commodity, even architecture. As a theorist trying to principles of by which art is driven, he analyzes industries and their mass produced objects and tries to come to terms with this. At the same time, he tries to integrate capitalism into his historical and scientific models. This paper tries to unravel Semper’s ideas on capitalism and the way he tries to resolve its problems in artistic production. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5aeaf3e4fbc44fc8777943eea11b99c2022-12-22T00:58:07ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522015-01-011111CL1Art, production and market conditions: Gottfried Semper’s historical perspective on commodities and the role of museumsClaudio Leoni0University College LondonThis 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 focus has been less on capitalism than on the arts and crafts although Semper’s comments on capitalism are apparent and illustrate that he understood that everything becomes a commodity, even architecture. As a theorist trying to principles of by which art is driven, he analyzes industries and their mass produced objects and tries to come to terms with this. At the same time, he tries to integrate capitalism into his historical and scientific models. This paper tries to unravel Semper’s ideas on capitalism and the way he tries to resolve its problems in artistic production.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/leoni.pdfGottfried SempercapitalismproductionGreat Exhibitioncommoditycommodificationartarchitecturefetishismideal collectionhistoryevolutionLondonDesign Reform |
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| title | Art, production and market conditions: Gottfried Semper’s historical perspective on commodities and the role of museums |
| title_full | Art, production and market conditions: Gottfried Semper’s historical perspective on commodities and the role of museums |
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| title_short | Art, production and market conditions: Gottfried Semper’s historical perspective on commodities and the role of museums |
| title_sort | art production and market conditions gottfried semper s historical perspective on commodities and the role of museums |
| topic | Gottfried Semper capitalism production Great Exhibition commodity commodification art architecture fetishism ideal collection history evolution London Design Reform |
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