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- Title
TALKING ABOUT ART: THE FRENCH ROYAL ACADEMY SALONS AND THE FORMATION OF THE DISCURSIVE CITIZEN.
- Authors
Ray, William
- Abstract
Discusses how the early Salons of the French Royal Academy spawned broader participation in critical discourse by the general public. Provision of an egalitarian site for the expression of personal opinions; Theorizing of the legitimacy of amateur response; Ways in which theorists of the period encouraged those with little or no technical experience in art to speak their minds about paintings; Prefiguring of the modern ethic of aesthetic self-expression that channels the pursuit of individuality and personal distinction into social order and hierarchy.
- Subjects
FRANCE; SALONS (Gatherings); CRITICAL discourse analysis; INTELLECTUAL history; FRENCH painting; ART &; society
- Publication
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2004, Vol 37, Issue 4, p527
- ISSN
0013-2586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ecs.2004.0047