18 Jan
2024
18 Jan
'24
9:40 a.m.
Kristian Vstrup Madsen
"Good doesn't cut it: quality and quantity in the reception history of
Vermeer“
a Lecture on Monday, January 22nd, 7 pm
at University of Applied Arts, Vordere Zollamtsstr. 7, 5th Floor, SE 20
In the mid 18th century, the King of Saxony bought a Vermeer because he
was told it was a Rembrandt, and he believed it. A few decades on, the
King of France declined to buy a Vermeer because it was not a Rembrandt.
Vermeer has always been good – anyone could see that. But good doesn’t
cut it when you’re selling to kings, oil barons, financiers, and
rappers. His example tells us that, across art history, from Old Masters
to post-postmodernists, quality is not a given, but subject to trend and
capital. In this lecture, Kristian Vistrup Madsen traces how value was
attributed to Vermeer's paintings, and how value, over time, made us see
those paintings differently.
/*Kristian Vistrup Madsen* is a writer and art critic based in Berlin.
He has contributed to magazines such as Artforum, Harpers, The White
Review, and Kunstkritikk. Doing Time: Essays on Using People was
published by Floating Opera Press in 2021./
and
"The (Great) Kristian Vistrup Madsen Show. Contemporaneity in
Postmedieval Times"
an exhibition opening on Tuesday, January 23rd, 6 pm
at University of Applied Arts, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, Painting
Department, Studios 610 and 621
a cooperation with the departments Philosophy and Painting, in the
context of Kathrin Heinrich’s seminar „Art Criticism“.
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Kernbauer
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | University of Applied Arts Vienna
Abteilung Kunstgeschichte | Art History
A-1010 Wien| Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
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