Reconsidering Gerome by Allan

Reconsidering Gerome by Allan

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed success during his life. Crowds flocked to see his vibrant compositions and thanks to mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he reached audiences on an unprecedented scale. Despite Gerome's undisputed accomplishments, his success met with critical hostility. Emile Zola, champion of Edouard Manet, dismissed Gerome as a cynical manufacturer of anecdotal images for popular consumption - a critique repeatedly levelled at artists in the years since. In light of revisionist and postmodern trends over the past four decades, however, Gerome's work is now being approached with unprecedented seriousness and refreshing candour. The ten essays in this volume go far in challenging critical biases against the artist and indeed suggest that we are just beginning to learn how to 'read' Gerome's paintings in their full complexity.

Scott Allan is assistant curator in the Dept of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mary Morton is curator of French painting at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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ISBN 13	9781606060384
ISBN 10	1606060384
Titre	Reconsidering Gerome
Auteur	Allan
Série	Getty Publications -
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Getty Trust Publications
Année de publication	2010-09-14
Nombre de pages	168
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