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Zusatztext "All in all! Gahtan and Pegazzano have put together an excellent volume in which the authors have contributed a great deal of valuable art historical and museological content for our consideration. It is a book that will undoubtedly inspire further research by others! stimulate scholarly discourse! and lead to future publications of import."-Journal of Art Historiography Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Illustration Credits Preface Introductory Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art Maia Wellington Gahtan, Donatella Pegazzano I. Living Artist Retrospectives 1. ‘ Nathaniel Hone’s 1775 Exhibition: The First Single-Artist Retrospective’ Konstantinos Stefanis 2. The Degas and Cassat 1915 Exhibition in Support of Women’s suffrage Ruth E. Iskin 3. Braque, Gris and Léger: Cubism in Switzerland in 1933 Kate Kangaslahti 4. Bacon at Grand Palais: Echoes and Influences Monika Keska II. Posthumous Retrospectives 5. The First Posthumous Retrospective in France: The Paul Delaroche Exhibition, a New Perception of the Artist’s Work Marie-Claire Rodriguez 6. Max Jordan’s First Monographic Exhibitions at the Royal National Gallery in Berlin – Rewriting the Canon of Art History and Creating the Artist as a National Role Model at the Beginning of the German Empire Saskia Pütz 7. The Courbet Retrospective of 1882. Harbinger of the Artist’s first Major Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné Petra ten-Doesschate Chu 8. The Critical Reception of Marcello Tommasi’s Oeuvre and the Tommasi Family’s Artistic Legacy Elisa Gradi III. Old Master Monographic Exhibitions from before World war II 9. The Holbein Exhibition of 1871 – An Iconic Turning Point for Art History Lena Bader 10. ‘ This is the answer to those who tell us that Reynolds was a snob ’ : The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition of Works by Joshua Reynolds (1883 – 1884) Camilla Murgia 11. The Master and Siena: the 1912 Duccio exhibition Elisa Camporeale 12. The Twelve Days of Bartolomeo della Gatta (Arezzo, October 1-12, 1930). A Regional Exhibition of an Old Master during the Era of Fascism Luca Pezzuto 13. Titian’s 1935 Exhibition in Venice Giuliana Tomasella IV. Old Master Monographic Exhibitions after World War II 14....
