1. List the actors in the Paris are world. Who, in Becker's terms, are the "core artists" ? The "support personnel"? What technical, social, cultural, and aesthetic factors affected the production of art at the time?
2. How did the interests of the academicians vary from that of the dealers and of the critics?
3. How did the academic system constrain artists? How did the dealer-critic system free artists from these constraints? What new constraints did the dealer-critic system put upon artists? What constraints existing under the academic system continued into the new one?
4. How did the change of distribution systems shape the art that was produces?