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Author : Sharon Lindahl Boedo
Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis Reception and Membership at the Académie Royale de Peinture Et de Sculpture, 1648-1793 by : Sharon Lindahl Boedo
Download or read book Reception and Membership at the Académie Royale de Peinture Et de Sculpture, 1648-1793 written by Sharon Lindahl Boedo. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon Lindahl Boedo
Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis Reception and membership at the académie royale de peinture et sculpture by : Sharon Lindahl Boedo
Download or read book Reception and membership at the académie royale de peinture et sculpture written by Sharon Lindahl Boedo. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Michel
Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture by : Christian Michel
Download or read book The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture written by Christian Michel. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (French Academy of Painting and Sculpture)—perhaps the single most influential art institution in history—governed the arts in France for more than 150 years, from its founding in 1648 until its abolition in 1793. Christian Michel's sweeping study presents an authoritative, in-depth analysis of the Académie’s history and legacy. The Académie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibitions, enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions, and deeply influenced the artistic landscape in France. Yet the institution remains little understood today: all commentary on it, during its existence and since its abolition, is based on prejudices, both favorable and critical, that have shaped the way the institution has been appraised. This book takes a different approach. Rather than judging the Académie Royale, Michel unravels existing critical discourse to consider the nuances and complexities of the academy’s history, reexamining its goals, the shifting power dynamics both within the institution and in the larger political landscape, and its relationship with other French academies and guilds.
Author : Hannah Williams
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Acad?e Royale by : Hannah Williams
Download or read book Acad?e Royale written by Hannah Williams. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Acad?e Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art theory, education, and practice, this engaging study uncovers the fascinating histories - official and unofficial - of that artistic community. Through an innovative approach to portraits - their values, functions, and lives as objects - this book explores two faces of the Acad?e. Official portraits grant us insider access to institutional hierarchies, ideologies, rituals, customs, and everyday experiences in the Acad?e's Louvre apartments. Unofficial portraits in turn reveal hidden histories of artists' personal relationships: family networks, intimate friendships, and bitter rivalries. Drawing on both art-historical and anthropological frames of analysis, this book offers insightful interpretations of portraits read through and against documentary evidence from the archives to create a rich story of people, places, and objects. Theoretically informed, rigorously researched, and historically grounded, this book sheds new light on the inner workings of the Acad?e. Its discoveries and compelling narrative make an invaluable and accessible contribution to our understanding of this pre-eminent European institution and the social lives of artists in early modern Paris.
Author : Anne Betty Weinshenker
Release : 2008
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis A God Or a Bench by : Anne Betty Weinshenker
Download or read book A God Or a Bench written by Anne Betty Weinshenker. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a new approach to consideration of the sculpture created in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book is concerned with its societal roles and the ways in which it was received. The author draws on an extensive range of texts by artists, critics, art theoreticians and other writers as well as on images, setting contemporary conceptions of the nature and purposes of sculpture and individual works into the contexts of the elite and popular cultures of the time. Among topics included are investigations of the employment of statuary for political and religious communication, pictorial representations of sculpture, the comparative roles of painting and sculpture, and the social status of various kinds of sculptors. Previous treatments have dealt with these productions primarily in terms of stylistic developments or of the accomplishments of individual sculptors. This study however approaches its subject thematically rather than chronologically or biographically, while nevertheless acknowledging developments and variations that occurred during the period.
