Beings from nowhere : Metamorphoses of Academic Principles in Painting of the First Half of the Twentieth Century
2008
Abstract
This book Beings from Nowhere. Metamorphoses of Academic Principles in Painting of the First Half of the Twentieth Century in Bohemia, and the exhibition of the same name that this book accompanies, focus on the work of the hitherto ignored artists who in the first half of the twentieth century continued to develop the tradition of the nineteenth-century academic and Salon painting.
While since the 1960s the academism1 of the latter half of the nineteenth century has been globally reintroduced to contemporary art history by an array of postmodernist researchers, the twentieth-century painting of the same style still arouses little interest, and the misgivings about its status as art remain.