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*DAY 5: *Today is Tuesday, June 7th, and we move to nineteenth century Paris and London to examine the decline of the French and British
Academies and the rise of the art dealer. Read an excerpt from Harrison C. White and Cynthia White's Canvases and Careers: Institutional
Change in the French Painting World (University of Chicago Press, 1996) to learn about the crucial role of the art dealer and the art critic in
what they have termed "the dealer-critic system". It is through the dealer-critic system and the storied careers of dealers such as Ernest
Gambart, Joseph Duveen and Durand-Ruel that the art market begins to operate on an international scale between France and England (and
later to the United States). In your response to the reading below, discuss the crucial role of the dealer-critic system using an example of an
artist, a critic, a work of art or a dealer.
Readings
Harrison C. White and Cynthia A. White, Canvases and Careers : Institutional Change in the French Painting World
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