Post-Photographic

Peter Campbell

  • Early Impressionism and the French State by Jane Mayo Roos
    Cambridge, 300 pp, £45.00, October 1996, ISBN 0 521 55244 3
  • Adolph Menzel edited by Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher
    Yale, 480 pp, £45.00, September 1996, ISBN 0 300 06954 5

Around the middle of the 19th century, disaster struck academic painting. Extinction threatened whole families of subject-matter – histories, moralities, fantasies – and the genres which dominate our own view of the following decades began to flourish: pictures made in the open air, scenes of modern life. What had happened? Was academic painting pushed off its perch by competing styles, or did it grow unsteady because of some failure of its own or from some fatal infection?

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