Research Catalog

Title

Canvases and careers : institutional change in the French painting world : with a new foreword and a new afterword / Harrison C. White, Cynthia A. White.

Author

White, Harrison C.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

White, Cynthia A.

Description

xxii, 173 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Art and society > France > History > 19th century
• Art patronage > France > History > 19th century
• Painters > France > Economic conditions
• Painters > France > Social conditions
• Schilderkunst
• Sociale verandering
• Impressionisten
• Patronage
• 4.280

Note

• Originally published : New York : Wiley, 1965.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword to the 1993 Edition / Harrison C. White -- 1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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. Afterword to the 1993 Edition / Cynthia A. White.

ISBN

• 0226894878 (pbk.)
• 9780226894874 (pbk.)

LCCN

92031827

OCLC

• ocm26502001
• 26502001
• SCSB-14349290

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries