Author: Wagner, Anne Middleton
Title: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986. Paperback. White wraps with color-photo illustration and white and black lettering; xvii, 328 pp.; richly illustrated. "Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Wagner offers a new view of artistic education and patronage, and a new definition of what 'academic' meant within the assumptions and expectations of the period. Above all she shows what comprised success in the nineteenth-century world of art: how sculpture was learned, what the institutions of art were really like, what was involved in excelling within them." -- back cover. VG (Wraps are edgeworn, scuffed, smudged and toned; textblock edges are scuffed, smudged and has some toning; interior is clean; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: European Artists ; Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste ; ;


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