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Art and the academy in the nineteenth century

Academies functioned as the main venues for the promotion, display and teaching of art throughout the 19th century. The authors uncover the institutional structures and artistic practices of academies from London and Paris to Dusseldorf and Rio de Janeiro.
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 207 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
9780719054952, 9780719054969, 9780813527956, 9780813527949, 0719054958, 0719054966, 0813527945, 0813527953
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Fear and loathing of the academic, or just what is it that makes the avant-garde so different, so appealing? / Paul Barlow
Leighton : the aesthete as academic / Elizabeth Prettejohn
Academicism, imperialism and national identity : the case of Brazil's Academia Imperial de Belas Artes / Rafael Cardoso Denis
Hidden from histories : women history painters in early nineteenth-century France / Gen Doy
Private advantage and public feeling : the struggle for academic legitimacy in Edinburgh in the 1820s / Duncan Forbes
From graphic to academic / Caroline Arscott
Auditing the RA : official discourse and the nineteenth-century Royal Academy / Gordon Fyfe
The lure of Rome : the academic copy and the Académie de France in the nineteenth century / Paul Duro
Cultivation and control : the 'Masterclass' and the Düsseldorf Academy in the nineteenth century / William Vaughan
Academic orthodoxy versus Pre-Raphaelite heresy : debating religious painting at the Royal Academy, 1840-50 / Michaela Giebelhausen
Academic cultures : the Royal Academy and the commerce of discourse in Victorian London / Colin Trodd