The Rare Art Traditions : : The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena / / Joseph Alsop.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Alsop, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (724 p.) :; 96 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; I. The Altered Apollo --; Interchapter 1. The Rare Art Traditions --; II. Art For Use --; III. Art Collecting --; IV. The Litmus Tests --; Interchapter 2. The Blueprint --; V. The Siamese Twins --; VI. The Other By-Products of Art --; Interchapter 3. The Proof – And the Question --; VII. "The Greek Miracle" --; VIII. The Pattern Repeats --; IX. The Pattern Vanishes – And Returns --; Interchapter 4. The Developed Historical Sense --; X. Art Collecting Revives --; XI. The Role of Cosimo --; XII. The Lesson of Lorenzo --; Interchapter 5. On Progression in Art --; XIII. The Climax in the West --; XIV. The Seventeenth Century --; Envoi --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691252261; 9783111292908
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691252261?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph Alsop.

A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art marketIn The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.