Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the French Painting World

Name: Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the French Painting World
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ISBN: 9780226894874

ISBN-10: 0226894878

ISBN-13: 9780226894874

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Authors: Harrison C. White, Cynthia A. White

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In the nineteenth century, the Acadeacute;mie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon critics, dealers, and small exhibitions. In Canvases and Careers, Harrison and Cynthia White examine in scrupulous and fascinating detail how and why this shift occurred. Assimilating a wide range of historical and sociological data, the authors argue convincingly that the Academy, by neglecting to address the social and economic conditions of its time, undermined its own ability to maintain authority and control. Originally published in…

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 198
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword to the 1993 Edition



Preface


Introduction



Roots of the Nineteenth-Century


Art Machine Artist as Learned Man


Triumph of the Royal Academy Paris


The Magnet Genesis of the Dealers Critics'


Emergence Persistence of Guild Patterns


Notes



The Machine in Flower Government


Patronage and the New Elite Training


Official Route to Success


The Education of Hippolyte


Flandrin Realities of Training


The Salon Proving Ground


The Prestige of French Painting


A Small Army


The Home Guard Dividing the Spoils Notes



A New System Emerges


Change in Social Context


Changing Techniques and the Artist's Role


A Glut in Search of a Market Canvases vs. Careers


Subject Matter, Styles, and Markets


The Dealer-Critic System


Individual Careers and the New System


Decay of the Academic System


Might-Have-Beens Francois Bonvin


Between Two Systems


Notes



The Impressionists Their Roles in the New System


"For Fear of Remaining a Nonentity"


Official Training--and Alternatives


First Meetings and Working Relationships


A Piece of a Meaning


To Instruct the Public


Critic as Theorist


The Critic as Publicist and Ideologue


The Dealer as Speculator


The Dealer as Patron "It's a Wonderful Business Being a Bourgeois--without a Cent!"


Manet's Sales Pissarro's Finances Monet's Money


An Expendable Weapon


The Group Show Impressionists and the Dealer-Critic System


Notes


Conclusions


Afterword to the 1993 Edition



Index