Collecting & Exhibiting Art

0002 Maria Poprzęcka, A Picture behind Glass

The paper considers the singular situation of reception occasioned by a painting shielded with a reflective pane of glass. The reflections in the glass dramatically break the cohesion of the painting and [...]

0004 Christien Melzer, Zur Vorgeschichte des Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinetts

Though the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett was properly established only in 1720, the electoral Saxon Kunstkammer and library in Dresden included a collection of prints and drawings from their very beginnings in the mid-16th century. The article focuses on [...]

0009 Anne Ring Petersen, Attention and Distraction: On the Aesthetic Experience of Video Installation Art

This article examines the interrelationship between attention and distraction in the reception of video installation art, a genre which is commonly associated with "immersion" and an intensified feeling of presence. This tends to veil the fact that [...]

0021 Kamila Kłudkiewicz, Kolekcjoner na rozdrożach. Jan Działyński i kórnicka kolekcja dzieł sztuki ... (Polish Version)

W drugiej połowie XIX wieku w europejskim kolekcjonerstwie wyróżniała się tendencja naukowego podejścia do zbieractwa. Kolekcjonerzy nawiązywali kontakty ze znawcami i badaczami sztuki [...]

0022 Kamila Kłudkiewicz, Collector at the Crossroads. Jan Działyński and the Kórnik Collection of Works of Art ... (English Version)

In the second half of the 19th century, a tendency for a scientific approach to collecting became visible in Europe. Collectors established contacts with art experts and art researchers [...]

0024 Katarzyna Jagodzińska, A Museum Open to the Street (English Version)

Museums, galleries and centres of art – of contemporary art in particular – go out into the space of the street to encourage passers-by to step inside. This mutual permeation and observation of the two worlds [...]

0025 Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Muzeum otwarte na ulicę (Polish Version)

Muzea, galerie i centra sztuki, zwłaszcza współczesnej, wychodzą w przestrzeń ulicy, by zachęcić przechodnia do wejścia. To Przenikanie się dwóch światów [...]

0035 Ljerka Dulibić and Iva Pasini Tržec, New information on the 19th century provenance of Albertinelli's Old Testament cycle

Analysis of the correspondence of Bishop J. J. Strossmayer and his agents, and of W. Buchanan and his agents, has provided new evidence of the 19th century provenance of Mariotto Albertinelli's paintings [...]

0039 Anne Gregersen, Challenging the Precepts of Modernism: The Late Work of J.F. Willumsen

The late work of the Danish artist J.F. Willumsen (1863-1958) has until recently largely been marginalized and deemed kitsch, of poor quality and "odd". As opposed to the canonization of his earlier work, [...]