书名：Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art / 阿特米西亚·詹蒂莱斯基与艺术商业
定价：468.0
ISBN：9780691253886
作者：Christopher R. Marshall
版次：1
出版时间：2024-06

内容提要：

题 目：Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art / 阿特米西亚·詹蒂莱斯基与艺术商业

作 者：Christopher R. Marshall

出 版：Princeton University Press ，2024

装 帧：精装，312页

尺 寸：24.1*27.9 cm

 

 

一本关于这位著名巴洛克画家的新著，揭示了她如何凭借敏锐的职业决策塑造了自己的职业生涯、风格和遗产

 

长久以来，艺术被视为一种使命——一种近乎宗教般的职业，驱使艺术家们去探寻人类最深层次问题的答案。然而，艺术界却是一个充满风险、竞争激烈的行业，要求艺术家们做出战略性的决策，尤其是对于女性艺术家而言。在《阿泰米西亚·真蒂莱斯基与艺术商业》一书中，克里斯托弗·马歇尔呈现了这位意大利巴洛克画家的生平、作品和遗产的新视角，揭示了她是如何在男性主导的领域里建立起长达四十年的成功职业生涯，以及她的商业头脑如何影响了她声誉的复兴，使她从艺术史中的一个脚注转变为全球知名的艺术家和女权主义偶像。

 

结合最新的研究成果和对新归属画作的详细分析，本书突出了真蒂莱斯基在意大利各艺术中心向公众推销自己时，发展出标志性风格背后的商业考量。她早期佛罗伦萨画作中的伪装自画像被重新评估为塑造自己形象、打造名人品牌的一种努力。此外，本书挑战了真蒂莱斯基的杰作仅限于其早期卡拉瓦乔风格作品的普遍看法，强调了其被忽视的晚期那不勒斯作品的重要性，这些作品被重新解释为对巴洛克工作室传统实践的创新回应。

 

《阿泰米西亚·真蒂莱斯基与艺术商业》表明，真蒂莱斯基作为画家所取得的非凡成功，不仅归功于她非凡的才华，还归功于她能够创造性地应对意大利巴洛克艺术界不断变化的趋势和挑战。

 

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacy

 

Art has long been viewed as a calling—a quasi-religious vocation that drives artists to seek answers to humanity’s deepest questions. Yet the art world is a risky, competitive business that requires artists to make strategic decisions, especially if the artist is a woman. In Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art, Christopher Marshall presents a new account of the life, work, and legacy of the Italian Baroque painter, revealing how she built a successful four-decade career in a male-dominated field—and how her business acumen has even influenced the resurrection of her reputation today, when she has been transformed from a footnote of art history to a globally famous artist and feminist icon.

 

Combining the most recent research with detailed analyses of newly attributed paintings, the book highlights the business considerations behind Gentileschi’s development of a trademark style as she marketed herself to the public across a range of Italian artistic centers. The disguised self-portraits in her early Florentine paintings are reevaluated as an effort to make a celebrity brand of her own image. And, challenging the common perception that Gentileschi’s only masterpieces are her early Caravaggesque paintings, the book emphasizes the importance of her neglected late Neapolitan works, which are reinterpreted as innovative responses to the conventional practices of Baroque workshops.

 

Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art shows that Gentileschi’s remarkable success as a painter was due not only to her enormous talent but also to her ability to respond creatively to the continuously evolving trends and challenges of the Italian Baroque art world.