Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí & Jackson Pollock:
Art & Celebrity excerpts

Art Design Publicity is nothing new—and extends way back to the beginning of the 20th century even.

As we know, art history and marketing have over-emphasized formal and art-product developments so much, that studies on the business context of art have been secondary at the very best. And let’s face it, art history education has been structurally discouraging such inquiry for generations. Filled with idealism, when we start to look beneath the surface, it can be quite surprising and very enlightening. Of course there is the risk that the idealism crashes to the floor in a sort of battle between Romanticism and Realism a couple of centuries later.

At ADP however, we are aligned to the realists, and with this in mind, we offer excerpts from John A. Walker’s Art and Celebrity. For specialists, some of the information will not be entirely new. However for non-specialists, which are most of us, there may not be a better, more economical introduction to the context of the art of 20th century Art Stars.

Future installments will focus on Andy Warhol, Gilbert & George, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

But for starters, we offer excerpts on Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Jackson Pollock from Art and Celebrity.

Intro | Picasso | Dalí | Pollock

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