by Jon Lackman | 23 October 2008 | Uncategorized
From the L.A. Times:
Albert Boime, an art historian, educator and author who evaluated art in its social and political context for new insights into French Neo-Classicism, Impressionism and other prominent art movements of the last 250 years, has died. He was 75. Boime, a faculty member at UCLA for more than 30 years … first captured wide attention with his 1971 book, “The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century.” In it he explored French Impressionism in relation to the neo-classical painting style that the Impressionists broke from. Many art historians had dismissed classical realist painting as irrelevant to the new movement … Boime was born March 17, 1933, in St. Louis and earned his doctorate at Columbia University.
