Canvases and Careers

In the nineteenth century, the Acad�mie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon critics, dealers, and small exhibitions. In Canvases and Careers , Harrison and Cynthia White examine in scrupulous and fascinating detail how and why this shift occurred.