Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Companion Website
Introduction
The Question of Style
Modernity and the Public Sphere
Tradition and Modernity in Art Outside Europe
Scope and Structure
Further Reading
1 Institutional Hierarchies
Establishing a Fine Art Tradition: The Spread of Academies
Academic Hierarchies: Institutions, Theory and Gender
A Hierarchy of Skills
The Art–Craft Divide: Unifying and Divisive Developments
The Decline of the Guilds: Defining the “Artist”
Questions of Modernity
Further Reading
2 Genres and Contested Hierarchies
History painting
Portraiture
Genre Painting
Landscape
Still Life
Questions of Modernity
Further Reading
3 Markets, Publics, Expert Opinions
Markets and Patrons
The Print Market
Exhibitions, Collectors, Museums and their Visitors
A Public for Art
Painting for an Imperial Public
Questions of Modernity
