英语翻译

英语翻译
publishers desired to let the past go while making new things look familiar.They
also wanted to shed a positive light on the rate by which commercialization began to
infiltrate the realm of fine art.Towards the end of the nineteenth century France was losing its position as the world’s cultural leader.The country could no longer compete with the industrial successes of America and Germany.After accepting this defeat and realizing this “tendency towards industrial stagnation,” France focused instead more on succeeding with “artisanal work of high quality as the source of French modernity.” Since “French taste conflicted with mass production,” they countered “industrial rivalry with traditions of quality.”3 France’s “protectionist” effort was a result of a concern that quality would be compromised if art were mass produced.France had a legitimate reason to worry that good French taste was being ruined,since by 1890,many French artisanal exports such as furniture,ceramics,and jewelry experienced a significant decline.4 Maintaining old hierarchies was at stake.In the context of Lautrec,supporters of the lithographic print began an immediate effort to redefine and reword limited-edition color lithographs.By simply changing the name of chromolithographies to lithographies en couleurs,publishers and dealers played a sort of psychological trick on the consumer by promoting a terminology that would mimic traditional ideals.Lautrec had found himself