PICTURING THE ARTIST'S STUDIO - FROM DELACROIX TO PICASSO

This richly diverse study examines the evolving image and contested status of the artist in late nineteenth-century France through the lens of the artists studio, which became a central theme in art and literature, stretching from Balzac to Proust and from Corot to Picasso. The studio was a hybrid space that blurred the distinctions between public and private, professional and domestic, artistic production and display. Besides a material space for art making, the studio was a social and commercial nexus and an extension of the artists...[Read more]