Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century - cover image

Copyright

Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire; Will Slauter

Published On

2021-10-08

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80064-146-4
Hardback978-1-80064-147-1
PDF978-1-80064-148-8
HTML978-1-80064-645-2
XML978-1-80064-151-8
EPUB978-1-80064-149-5
MOBI978-1-80064-150-1

Language

  • English

Print Length

542 pages (xiv+528)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 38 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.48" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 41 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.63" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback2243g (79.12oz)
Hardback2654g (93.62oz)

Media

Illustrations114

OCLC Number

1276901821

LCCN

2020479107

BIC

  • LNR
  • LNRC
  • KNTP
  • HBTB
  • AV
  • BGF
  • APF
  • AJ

BISAC

  • LAW050010
  • HIS000000
  • PHO000000
  • BIO001000

LCC

  • K1420.5

Keywords

  • production of images
  • circulation of images
  • lithographs
  • engravings
  • paintings
  • dagerreotypes
  • stereoscopic view
  • sculpture
  • visual art
  • copyright
  • patents
  • art history
  • law
  • publishing
  • graphic arts
  • intellectual property
  • culture
  • economics
  • technology
  • nineteenth century
  • history

Circulation and Control

Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century

  • Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (editor)
  • Will Slauter (editor)
The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions of paintings to daguerreotypes, stereoscopic views, and mass-produced sculptures, works of visual art became available in a wider range of media than ever before. But the circulation and reproduction of artworks also raised new questions about the legal rights of painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers, architects, collectors, publishers, and subjects of representation (such as sitters in paintings or photographs). Copyright and patent laws tussled with informal cultural norms and business strategies as individuals and groups attempted to exert some degree of control over these visual creations.

With contributions by art historians, legal scholars, historians of publishing, and specialists of painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic arts, this rich collection of essays explores the relationship between intellectual property laws and the cultural, economic, and technological factors that transformed the pictorial landscape during the nineteenth century.

This book will be valuable reading for historians of art and visual culture; legal scholars who work on the history of copyright and patent law; and literary scholars and historians who work in the field of book history. It will also resonate with anyone interested in current debates about the circulation and control of images in our digital age.

Reviews

The volume contributes to an exciting developing field which brings together law and the humanities and supplements approaches to nineteenth-century visual culture that are concerned with its worlds, networks, and agents—dealers, patrons, galleries, museums, markets—rather than its makers [...] The compilation does justice to the wealth of exciting research currently available and provides a useful point of entry for scholars across disciplines. The introduction is exceptionally lucid and will make a strong addition to undergraduate reading lists.

Frances Varley

British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 2, 2022.

Contents

Contributors

Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire

(editor)
Associate Curator of Fine Arts at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Will Slauter

(editor)