The Reversed Canvas: A Topos of Conflict Between Commercial and Aesthetic Values in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London

This chapter concerns the double valency of commercial and aesthetic values in reversed paintings depicted in nineteenth-century French and British paintings and cartoons of academic juries. My concern is not with actual backs of paintings, but with representations of them on the rectos of actual pa...

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Main Author: Richard Read
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2023-11-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/15019