Artist artist
The term artist-artist refers to both artists in the field of music and visual artists, comes from the English usage of an artist's artist . The term is translated into the German language with artist the artist or, more recently, with artist-artist . This includes those artists who were particularly valued for their work in their time or - in retrospect of art historiography - by their artistic colleagues and who received special attention through the appreciation of their colleagues, and not, as usual, through the attention economies of the art market and art criticism or institutions. This can be motivated by personal strategies of refusal and withdrawal as well as by work that defies formal attribution and categorization.
The narrower term “artist-artist” has only narrowed in meaning against the background of the art market boom of the last ten to 20 years, is used as a handy catchphrase and in this sense makes it clear that it continues to be in contemporary art alongside marketable positions there are autonomous positions that assert themselves far away from the market process.
In today's art market, artist-artists are often seen as "insider tips" from artists who are recommended to curators , collectors and dealers.
literature
- Theodore Reff : Cézanne and Poussin. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institution. Vol. 23, 1960. pp. 150-174.
- Texts on Art, Issue No. 71, September 2008 "Artist Artist"
Individual evidence
- ^ Bazon Brock : Incorporation and Representation. In: The barbarian as a cultural hero , Bazon Brock III, collected writings 1991–2002, aesthetics of omission, criticism of truth - how to become who you are not. Dumont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 978-3-8321-7149-0 , p. 465 ff. ( Online ). Brock shows the case of Adolf Bierbrauer as a single example.