Author: Weisberg, Gabriel P.
Title: Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
Description: New York, Dahesh Museum of Art / Rutgers University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Gray cloth casebound book with silver text down the spine. There is a glossy dust jacket with white and pale blue text on a mostly purple spine. Pages: (20), 1-178, (1). Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. "Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan- Bouveret (1852-1929) was among a group of the most creative students of Jean Leon Gérôme, the leading French academic painter of his day. A well-established naturalist painter and an artist acknowledged worldwide during the latter half of the nineteenth century, Dagnan-Bouveret used contemporary themes and techniques to modernize the academic tradition in an attempt to meet the aesthetic changes initiated by the impressionists. Displaying real diversity, he created photographically accurate compositions inspired by daily life. His best-known pieces were mesmerizing mystical-rel igious compositions. Accolades at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle and induction into the French Institute not only assured the status of his work, but also furthered his position as the upholder of the academic tradition at a time when it was coming under renewed attack by the modernists." (back cover) Very useful appendices, excellent scholarship. VG-/VG+: Wear to the edges of the dust jacket. Small tear in the upper right corner of the front cover that does not affect any text or image. The book is in excellent condition, with clean, bright pages and solidy binding.

Keywords: European Artists ; Dagnan-Bouveret, Pascal ; ;


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