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Kunstverleih - Warum?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Horst Dietze*
Affiliation:
Internationales Archiv für Kunstverleih und Bildereien Forstweg 58, D 1000 Berlin 28-Frohnau
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Abstract

The loan and hire of contemporary original works of art has a long but littleresearched history. Its recent development, in and outside public libraries (particularly in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Israel) began essentially after 1945. Its nature and scope is strongly influenced by contemporary art. Art loans are worth promoting because art plays a lesser role in our cultural life compared to music and literature, because of the gulf between contemporary art and the public at large, as a means of securing and developing the role of the artist in society, and to foster discrimination and visual literacy in an age dominated by images of all kinds.

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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1987

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