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The invention of artistic province in the 18th century : strategies of social distinction and structure of artistic field
Author/s : Olivier Christin
At the turn of the eighteenth century, in Amiens, the prestigious institution of the Puys – a poetry contest organized by a lay confraternity joined up with the offering of a painting in the honour of the Virgin Mary–stops short. In a few years, not only the contests are stopped, but the accumulated paintings are sold and sometimes destroyed. The retirement of this institution is made possible by a sophisticated process of invention of the province and provincialism enabled by the development of a partly internationalised artistic ‘field’. The Amiens elites and their Parisian patrons are able to dismiss the Puys and their pictorial traditions because there is a hierarchy of artistic schools that is commonly accepted. It is this invention that I want to explore in this paper, based on an exceptionally well documented case study.
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