The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. Hardcover 1971

by Albert Boime

Using words and works of both pupils and masters of the French Academy of Beaux-Arts, this fascinating book provides a wealth of information about the environment and studio practices of French official art from 1830 to 1890. Albert Boime describes the training of new pupils in the Academic ateliers, from the time they began and were set to copy engravings and casts to their copying of the old masters in the Louvre to their work before the live model and landscape painting out-of-doors. Boime's account includes not only a history of the transition from guild-controlled arts sanctioned by the church to an academic system sponsored by the state but also a reassessment of the positive role played by the Academy's teaching program in the evolution of the independent movements of the nineteenth century. 

Author: Albert Boime

Publisher : Phaidon 

Language : English

Hardcover : First Edition (January 1, 1971). 330 pages

Item Weight : 500 grams (1.1 pounds)

Condition: Secondhand