From Library Journal
This volume introduces with aplomb a recently discovered, otherwise unknown treasure trove of archives and works of 19th-century art to a wider general public. These records, artworks, and caricatures survived in the Acad?mie Julian Del Debbio, the successor to the famous 19th-century Paris Acad?mie Julian. Since women could not study at the official state Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Acad?mie Julian was virtually the only art educational institution available to them. The catalog of a traveling exhibition organized by the Dahesh Museum in New York, this work contains over 90 small illustrations drawn from the archives. Most are paintings and drawings by unknown or little-known women artists and will be studied today more for historical than aesthetic reasons. Catherine Fehrer writes of her search and recovery of the documents, Weisberg contributes an essay on the women of the Acad?mie Julian, Becker writes of the rivalry between Marie Bashkirtseff and Louise Breslau, and Tamar Garb provides discourse on gendering and art education. It is not overstatement to say this book is invaluable and the exhibition is not to be missed.
-Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., MD
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., MD
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
