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author: Pietro Gaglianò (Ricercatore indipendente, Docente di Art History and Criticism, Srisa - Santa Reparata. International School of Art, Firenze, IT)

An invention of modernity. Spectatorship in contemporary art

language: italian

abstract: The spectatorship conditions the relationship between observers and artworks since the crisis of the Ancien Règime. The most engaged artists and theorist, in twentieth-century art and theater, considered such position as impossible and intolerable. Jacques Rancière opposed to this sentence an essay here assumed as an optical tool for the critical reinterpretation of the reciprocal positions between work, artist and audience in some case-studies involving the relationship between art and the public sphere.

citation information: Pietro Gaglianò, Un’invenzione della modernità. La spettatorialità nell’arte contemporanea, "Ocula", vol.24, n.28, pp.219-231, December 2023. DOI: 10.57576/ocula2023-20

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