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The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870 (review)

The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870 (review) Reviews Waller, Susan. The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830­1870. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. Pp. 168. isbn 0-7546-3484-1. Gabriel P. Weisberg, University of Minnesota The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830­1870 examines a series of interlocking themes that reveal the ways in which artists' models were found, trained, and employed during the July Monarchy and Second Empire. Author Susan Waller analyzes models as a series of ethnic types, and as individuals with their own inherent personalities, in order to demonstrate how they contributed to the emergence of modernity rooted in reality, regardless of whether they posed in the École des BeauxArts or in private studios. This challenging thesis becomes more complicated by the fact that uncovering information on the lives of models is a time consuming process, made difficult by the paucity of information to be found on specific models, save for a few isolated cases. Waller demonstrates that the studio model became "a distinct social type" who helped artists move away from the heroicized, ideal male nude that dominated academies in earlier times. In focusing on the often illiterate, new types that appeared in studios, Waller creates considerable http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nineteenth Century French Studies University of Nebraska Press

The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870 (review)

Weisberg, Gabriel P.
Nineteenth Century French Studies , Volume 35 (2) – Apr 16, 2007
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Reviews Waller, Susan. The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830­1870. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. Pp. 168. isbn 0-7546-3484-1. Gabriel P. Weisberg, University of Minnesota The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830­1870 examines a series of interlocking themes that reveal the ways in which artists' models were found, trained, and employed during the July Monarchy and Second Empire. Author Susan Waller analyzes models as a series of ethnic types, and as individuals with their own inherent personalities, in order to demonstrate how they contributed to the emergence of modernity rooted in reality, regardless of whether they posed in the École des BeauxArts or in private studios. This challenging thesis becomes more complicated by the fact that uncovering information on the lives of models is a time consuming process, made difficult by the paucity of information to be found on specific models, save for a few isolated cases. Waller demonstrates that the studio model became "a distinct social type" who helped artists move away from the heroicized, ideal male nude that dominated academies in earlier times. In focusing on the often illiterate, new types that appeared in studios, Waller creates considerable

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