Overcoming All Obstacles The Women of the Académie Julian |
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| Author:
| Becker, Jane |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-2755-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1999 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian is the first book to examine late nineteenth-century Paris's most famous training ground for the leading women artists of the period. The Académie Julian was founded in Paris in 1868, initially to prepare students for entry to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the nineteenth-century's preeminent art school. Because women could not study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts until 1897, Julian itself became an international...
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Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian is the first book to examine late nineteenth-century Paris's most famous training ground for the leading women artists of the period. The Académie Julian was founded in Paris in 1868, initially to prepare students for entry to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the nineteenth-century's preeminent art school. Because women could not study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts until 1897, Julian itself became an international equivalent for many of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century's most important women artists. Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, this volume includes documentary photographs and caricatures that have never before been reproduced.