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The end of the Salon : art and the state in the early Third Republic / Patricia Mainardi.

By: Mainardi, Patricia.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Cambridge new art history and criticism.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994Description: 224 p : ill. ; 26cm + pbk.ISBN: 052146921X.Subject(s): Salon (Exhibition : Paris, France) | Art and state -- France -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 759.4
Contents:
Pictures to See and Pictures to Sell -- Moral Order in the Fine Arts -- National education and industrial prosperity -- Aesthetic purity -- Independents and Independence -- The republic of the arts -- The Third Republic arts administration.
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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.

This examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the exhibition centre in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century. Patricia Mainardi demonstrates how artists were forced to function within the framework of social, economic and cultural changes taking place and how art and social history are inextricably linked.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pictures to See and Pictures to Sell -- Moral Order in the Fine Arts -- National education and industrial prosperity -- Aesthetic purity -- Independents and Independence -- The republic of the arts -- The Third Republic arts administration.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Pictures to See and Pictures to Sell
  • 2 Moral Order in the Fine Arts
  • 3 National education and industrial prosperity
  • 4 Aesthetic purity
  • 5 Independents and Independence
  • 6 The republic of the arts
  • 7 The Third Republic arts administration
  • Index

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The history of 19th-century French art can hardly be seriously discussed without reference to the Salons of the period. In this closely argued study, Mainardi scrutinizes the changing nature of the Salon over the span of nearly a century, from 1791, when it was converted from a "showcase" of officially sanctioned Academic production into an increasingly commercial institution--a kind of "bazaar" to benefit a burgeoning class of independent artists. Extending the aims and method of her Art and Politics of the Second Empire (CH, Mar'88), she explores the function of the Salon as a social and economic determinant of contemporaneous artistic production. She notes the persistent tensions (never really resolved) between authoritarian aims to present Academic "pictures to see" and democratic, entrepreneurial motives of showing "pictures to sell"; the last-gasp effort to breathe new life into venerable Academic traditions (an ambitious but unsuccessful Triennale exhibition of "elite" art) in 1883 following the end of the State's sponsorship of the long-familiar annual Salon in 1880; and the special interest groups that had begun to organize more modest, "protectionist" displays--a thrust exemplified by the "Impressionist Salons." Appropriately illustrated and amply documented. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty; professional; general. F. A. Trapp; formerly, Amherst College