Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art

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Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art is written by Maia Wellington Gahtan and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 135177820X (ISBN 10) and 9781351778206 (ISBN 13).

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.