The End of the Salon examines the cultural forces that contributed
to the demise of an important exhibition centre for art in Europe
and America in the late 19th 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 marketplace 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. An overview of the spectrum of art production at the
end of the 19th century, government attitudes toward the arts in
the early Third Republic, and the institution of exhibitions as
they were redefined by free-market economics in the 19th century,
are also provided. The book 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.
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