Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouvert and the Transformation of the Academic

by Gabriel P. Weisberg

Book Overview

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan- Bouveret (1852-1929) was among a group of the most creative students of Jean Leon G r me, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531551
• ISBN13: 9780813531557
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 11.3"