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Title: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Thomas E. Crow ISBN: 0-300-03764-3 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: questionable and lack of prespective
Comment: I have a number of problems with this book. The author navigates with extraordinary articulation over a large and sophisticated variety of historical documents, the so-called 'primary sources'. His capability to research is noteworthy. I derive my criticism from the interpretations he proposes. The thesis of the book is that there has to be a relatively sophisticated public for a style to emerge, develop and mature. This is illustrated with the formation of a social-cultural-artistic oligarchy - a self-sufficient social system in itself, during the mid 1600s with the 'Academie Royal de peinture et sculpture' (Paris, 1648). To propose that the 'fetes galantes' of Wateau are the ideological refuge of the 'noblesse d'eppe' is a very far-fetched idea. To affirm that the 'fetes de dieu' were sufficient conditions to form a public simply because the festivals included the exhibition of old masters graciously lent by the curieux and the connoisseurs is also another very far-fetched idea.
I have many great reservations when 'historians' dig up new facts and propose interpretations without asserting their ideological commitments. Devoid of philosophical direction, any such interpretations are worthless.
All over Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, the Corpus Christi festivals, which in France were called 'fetes de dieu', involved the exhibition of paintings with historical content, both secular and religious. These traditions go back to the 12th century in some cases. Were these the forerunners of the gallery or of the museum? Not really! Either Crow's research is incomplete, or his thesis is denied. Because if it was confirmed, then the formation of a relatively sophisticated public would have started in the 12th century, in the absence of the Academie Royale and its discourses ...
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Title: Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancient Regime by Norman Bryson ISBN: 0521276543 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1983 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France by Thomas Crow ISBN: 0300072740 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Epic and Empire by David Quint ISBN: 0691015201 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 25 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas by Charles Harrison, Paul Wood ISBN: 0631227083 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Five Plays by Thomas Middleton ISBN: 0140432191 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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