Abstract

This paper explores the changing identity of artistic professionalism, especially in late 19th-century France. It ties artistic self-fashioning to the collapse of the Salon system and casts professionalism as a marketing strategy.

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

5-21-2015

Notes/Citation Information

This was a keynote presentation at the international conference, Friend or Foe: Art and the Market in the Nineteenth Century, sponsored by the European Society for Nineteenth Century Art, the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Mesdag Collection, The Hague.

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