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“. https:__www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net_uploads_TKVMS_s.jpg 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 Besuchsadresse: A-1030 Wien, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Zimmer 444 fon +43-1-71133-2760 fax +43-1-71133-2769 eva.kernbauer(a)uni-ak.ac.at <mailto:sabine.eder@uni-ak.ac.at> www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net <http://www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net/>