Salon Hang
サロン掛け / 1667–19th century / Layout / Exhibition Design
The Paris Salon's manner of stacking paintings frame-to-frame from floor to ceiling. Height told rank, and viewing became competition and society — the exact origin against which the white cube reacted.
Stacked floor to ceiling / Crowded frames / Rank by position / The whole wall used
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Paris Salon / hanging 'on the line' / the Salon des Refusés, 1863