In the nineteenth century, Paris was at the centre of the art world and an unstoppable attraction for American students and artists, especially after 1860. They would turn up en masse at the studios of artists like G\u00e9r\u00f4me and Bougeureau, aspiring to exhibit their works at the annual Paris Salon and following with admiration (and sometimes in horror) developments in the fine arts, such as the irresistible rise of impressionism. Few were the American painters who were able to escape the lure of Paris, and even those who chose not to come and study in the capital were keen to see their efforts applauded by French opinion.
\nThis particularly well researched book examines the role played by American artists in Paris from the Salon des Refus\u00e9s in 1863 up until the emergence of a recognizably American style of painting.The over one hundred works are analysed in three amply illustrated essays by Kathleen Adler, Erica E. Hirschler, and H. Barbara Weinberg, who explain why these artists came to Paris in the first place, how they reacted to what they found, and what they absorbed from this experience. Contributions by David Park Curry, Rodolphe Rapetti, and Christopher Riopelle provide further invaluable background information about this fascinating period.<\/p>\n
Kathleen Adler<\/strong> is the former Director of Education at the National Gallery, London. In the nineteenth century, Paris was at the centre of the art world and an unstoppable attraction for American students and artists, especially after 1860. They would turn up en masse at the studios of artists like G\u00e9r\u00f4me and Bougeureau, aspiring to exhibit their works at the annual Paris Salon and following with admiration (and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3767,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[59],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3790","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-modern-art","7":"disponibilita-no","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nErica E. Hirschler<\/strong> is a curator of Paintings and curator in the Department of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
\nH. Barbara Weinberg<\/strong> is curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork.
\nDavid Park Curry <\/strong>is head curator in the Department of Decorative Arts and the Department of American Sculpture and Painting at the Museum of Art, in Baltimore.
\nRodolphe Rapetti<\/strong> is head curator of heritage and Deputy Director at the head offices of the Mus\u00e9es de France, in Paris.
\nChristopher Riopelle<\/strong> is curator of Nineteenth-century Paintings at the National Gallery, in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"