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A művész, az anekdota és a mű
The Artist, the Anecdote and the Art Work

Author(s): Béla Bacsó
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: history of art; sociology of art; biography; anecdote; Western art

Summary/Abstract: What is it that defines an artist as such? The appreciation of his contemporaries, the market, or, conversely, the fact that in spite of the lack of appreciation by his contemporaries, his life's work somehow becomes impossible over time? Or is it perhaps, nowadays, the simple fact of declaring himself an artist?

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 20-23
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Hungarian