Art exhibitions in the 18th century Paris
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2021-3-148-172
Abstract
For the frst time in Russian historiography the article collects and systematizes information concerning art exhibitions in Paris in the eighteenth century, which makes it possible to identify the cultural and social significance of that phenomenon. Exposition activity is seen as a new and very significant phenomenon of cultural life at that time, a symptom of the democratization of art, which entailed the development of mass reflection on the role and signifcance of creative work in the form of a well-developed art criticism. A study of sources such as the minutes of the Royal Academy and the collection of critical reviews of art exhibitions (Deloigne’s Collection) at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris allowed seeing and appreciating the immediate reactions of contemporaries to metropolitan exhibitions of various scales. A wide variety of the public, as well as the renewed role of the viewer, overturned the idea of art as a luxury available only to the elite, and turned the visual arts in France into an asset of the nation.
About the Author
E. E. Agratina
Moscow State Academy of Choreography
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena E. Agratina, Cand. of Sci. (Art Studies), associate professor
bld. 5, 2nd Frunzenskaya Street, Moscow, 119146
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Agratina E.E. Art exhibitions in the 18th century Paris. RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies. 2021;(3):148-172. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2021-3-148-172
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