David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

numbers are for men, not women.) That’s the upslope: the more, the merrier. Then there’s the stretch from, say, seven to fourtee ...

disabilities. For special-needs students, the inverted-U curve is shifted far to the right. 6 Although the Hotchkiss website cla ...

Chapter Three ...

Caroline Sacks “If I’d gone to the University of Maryland, I’d still be in science.” ...

1. One hundred and fifty years ago, when Paris was at the center of the art world, a group of painters used to gather every even ...

and a sharp tongue and would sometimes descend into bitter argument. Paul Cézanne, tall and gruff, would come and sit moodily in ...

ornery and alienated of men—loved Pissarro. Years later, he would identify himself as “Cézanne, pupil of Pissarro.” Together thi ...

There were virtually no dealers interested in their paintings. When the art critics mentioned the Impressionists— and there was ...

Ministry of the Imperial House and the Fine Arts, and it was considered a profession in the same way that medicine or the law is ...

in all of Europe. Every year each of the painters of France submitted two or three of his finest canvases to a jury of experts. ...

May, as many as a million people would throng the exhibition, jostling for position in front of the biggest and best- known arti ...

deliberations and waited outside, hoping to find out early whether he got in or not. But then becoming shy, he introduced himsel ...

The Salon’s attitude was traditional. “Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally fram ...

were huge, meticulously painted canvases showing scenes from French history or mythology, with horses and armies or beautiful wo ...

Guards had to be placed around the painting to keep the crowds of spectators at bay. “An atmosphere of hysteria and even fear pr ...

almost as bad as not being accepted at all. The Salon was the most important art show in the world. Everyone at the Café Guerboi ...

In the end, the Impressionists made the right choice, which is one of the reasons that their paintings hang in every major art m ...

always in our best interest. There are many examples of this, but few more telling than the way we think about where to attend u ...

2. Caroline Sacks^1 grew up on the farthest fringes of the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. She went to public schools through ...

really, really into bugs. And sharks. So for a while I thought I was going to be a veterinarian or an ichthyologist. Eugenie Cla ...