Word: salons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego, the only answer is c. In case anyone thinks he is making too much of Salammbo's gyrations, Dijkstra wants us to know that a painting of the priestess by Charles Allen Winter was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1898 and a sculpted version by Jean-Antoine-Marie Idrac won a place of honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It was, in other words, a scene that appealed all too strongly to the roving Victorian...
...trains once came in and out, was a grimy white gleam: the spectral plaster of Rodin's Gates of Hell. In a side gallery, a visitor furtively ran his finger over the marble nipple of a luscious demimondaine writhing naked among stone roses, once the sensation of the salon of 1847, whose model had been apostrophized by Baudelaire...
...Louvre was going to surrender its masterpieces of early 19th century classicism and romanticism. So Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement. Cachin, Laclotte and the new museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and the formal rupture of the avant-garde from the academy. Giscard demurred. He wanted Orsay to begin in 1830, with Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People -- which the Louvre flatly refused to release. Back to the drawing board. But then...
...history, Jean Delville's School of Plato, featuring Alcibiades and his willowy friends yearning like blessed damsels at the lucky philosopher in a landscape full of wisteria and white peacocks. Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century, marvels of the salon in their day, high-finance porn of the ripest sort: Cabanel's The Birth of Venus, Clesinger's notorious Woman Stung by a Serpent. "Certainly we have bad paintings," sniffs Director Cachin. "We have only the 'greatest' bad paintings...
Looking for real-life drama in the daytime? Forget about General Hospital and Days of Our Lives; consider the "Case of the Prom Night Fallout." A 16-year- old girl and her mother sue a hair salon for $150, claiming that a permanent the girl received was so bad that she had to miss her high school prom. In the mood for weightier legal matters? A high school teacher brings a sex- discrimination suit against her school board, charging that she was fired because she got pregnant -- without a husband. Or how about a juicy family squabble? The grandparents...