Public access to art in Paris : a documentary history from the Middle Ages to 1800 / Robert W. Berger.

Main entry:

Berger, Robert W.

Title & Author:

Public access to art in Paris : a documentary history from the Middle Ages to 1800 / Robert W. Berger.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288) and index.
1. Medieval Paris as an Artistic Capital -- 2. City Sights: Streetcorner Madonnas, Processions, and the Dance of Death -- 3. Showcases for the Avant-Garde: Royal Entries of the Renaissance -- 4. Toward the Public Exhibition: The "Mays" of Notre-Dame -- 5. Academy Exhibitions Under Louis XIV -- 6. Sun King's Picture Collection -- 7. Rise of the Popular Press in the Seventeenth Century -- 8. Exploring Paris, Guidebook in Hand -- 9. Academy Opens Its Collection to Amateurs -- 10. Abbe Du Bos Defines a New Aesthetic -- 11. Place Dauphine Exhibitions -- 12. Salons -- 13. Painting in Buskins -- 14. From Princely Collection to Public Museum: The Palais Royal and Luxembourg Galleries -- 15. Later Eighteenth Century.

Summary:

"Public Access to Art in Paris explores public accessibility to art (mainly painting and sculpture) on exhibit in Paris from the High Middle Ages to the year 1800. The topic is important, because from such displays emerged the familiar institutions and practices of the modern world: public museums and sculpture gardens, exhibitions of contemporary art, and popular art journalism. This book traces the origins and development of these familiar components in the city of Paris, where Robert Berger believes all the crucial elements first appeared together. The documentary format offers the reader an extensive array of source writings, many translated for the first time."--Jacket.

ISBN:

027101749X (alk. paper)
9780271017495 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Art France Paris Exhibitions Sources.
Art museums France Paris History.
Art literature France Paris History.
Art France Paris Expositions Sources.
Art Documentation France Paris Histoire.
Art.
Art literature.
Art museums.
Openbaarheid.
Kunstvoorwerpen.
France Paris.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203674
Call No.: N6850 .B46 1999
Status: Available

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