I’m intrigued by academism. It’s a forgotten bureaucratic, institutional, “scientific” style but 

a) more historically important styles like Impressionism defined themselves against it 

b) It was the form of European art that got exported to Asia, leading to fusion with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_

I strongly suspect modern unreadable “program lit” similarly serves as a foil to more vivid stuff that actually gets read, including genre https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-real-degree

Is it really forgotten? Bouguereau is my favorite painter.

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