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The End of the Salon Patricia Mainardi

The End of the Salon By Patricia Mainardi

The End of the Salon by Patricia Mainardi


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This 1993 text examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the most important exhibition centre for art in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century. Tracing the history of the salon from the French Revolution to the 1880s, Patricia Mainardi shows that its contradictory purposes resulted in its collapse.

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The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic by Patricia Mainardi

The End of the Salon examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the most important exhibition centre for art in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century. Tracing the history of the salon from the French Revolution, when it was taken away from the Academy and opened to all artists, to the 1880s, Patricia Mainardi shows that its contradictory purposes, as didactic exhibition venue and art market place, resulted in its collapse. She also situates the salon within the shifting currents of art movements, from modern to traditional, and the evolving politics of the Third Republic, when France definitively chose a republican over a monarchic form of government. The book, which was originally published in 1993, demonstrates how all artists were forced to function within the framework of the social, economic and cultural changes then taking place and how art and social history are inextricably linked.

The End of the Salon Reviews

'Mainardi's The End of the Salon is important as a rare attempt to shift our attention from the independent commercial exhibitions, whence emerged the now canonised avantgarde, back to the establishment against which they appeared to rebel ! Mainardi's text is well-conceived and admirably researched !' Arts Review

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Pictures to see and pictures to sell; 2. Moral order in the fine arts: 1870-1878; 3. Turbulance in the salon system, 1878-1882; 4. Aesthetic painting; 5. Consolidation and collapse; 6. The republic of the arts; 7. The third republic arts administration; Notes; Bibliography.

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GOR005833011
9780521469210
052146921X
The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic by Patricia Mainardi
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1994-09-30
226
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