The End of the Salon by Patricia Mainardi

The End of the Salon 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.

'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

Patricia Mainardi is professor emerita of art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Chevalier in France's Order of Academic Palms. She has received the College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey Award and numerous fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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ISBN 13	9780521469210
ISBN 10	052146921X
Title	The End of the Salon
Author	Patricia Mainardi
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1994-09-30
Number of pages	226
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