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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (724 p.) :; 96 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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