The History of Art according to Instagram is an art book featuring a collection of over 700 posts from Instagram.
These pictures were taken in museums all over the world and all of them show the same thing: people’s reactions to artworks.What prompted users to post these images – showing their followers how they experience culture – isn’t so hard to understand.
But there’s more to it than that:
All these pictures reveal how people are consuming art today.
But there’s more to it than that:
All these pictures reveal how people are consuming art today.
How much our way of experiencing art has changed.
How dierently artworks that have inspired generations of people and artists are seen today.
How much they have actually changed art.
All the posts in the book are sorted by the common #ArtMovements used to classify the history of art. Which are also real #hashtags that were used, during the editing, to find the posts on Instagram. Which makes it even more evident that the reaction to art shown on Instagram are in#uenced not by the art alone, but also by the context. By the human need to be seen and appreciated by others. The History of Art According to Instagram aims to turn people’s attention to art without neglecting the importance of the medium they use to share their experiences.
How dierently artworks that have inspired generations of people and artists are seen today.
How much they have actually changed art.
All the posts in the book are sorted by the common #ArtMovements used to classify the history of art. Which are also real #hashtags that were used, during the editing, to find the posts on Instagram. Which makes it even more evident that the reaction to art shown on Instagram are in#uenced not by the art alone, but also by the context. By the human need to be seen and appreciated by others. The History of Art According to Instagram aims to turn people’s attention to art without neglecting the importance of the medium they use to share their experiences.
The History of Art According to Instagram is the most honest art book around.
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