BOUGUEREAU AND AMERICA

This fascinating volume offers an in-depth exploration of Bouguereau's overwhelming popularity in turn-of-the-century America and th e ways that his work-widely known from reviews, exhibitions, and inexpensive reproductions-resonated with the American public. While also lauded by the French artistic establishment and a dominant presence at the Parisian Salons, Bouguereau achieved his greatest s uccess selling his idealized and polished paintings to a voracious American market. In this book, the authors discuss how the artist 's sensu...[Read more]