The Capitalist and the Critic : : J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art /

The Capitalist and the Critic : : J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art / / Charles Molesworth.

Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the world’s foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and acco...

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VerfasserIn:
Molesworth, Charles,
MitwirkendeR:
Fry, Roger,
Morgan, J. Pierpont,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Two Differing Portraits
  • Chapter I The Birth of Dynastic Finance
  • Chapter II The Esthetic Education of an Art Critic
  • Chapter III The Metropolitan Museum Acquisitions and Expertise
  • Chapter IV The Metropolitan and the Conflicts of a New Vision
  • Chapter V Morgan and the Building of an Encyclopedic Museum
  • Chapter VI Growth of an Art Expert Fry’s Radical Vision
  • Coda Fry and Modern Theories Taste, Teaching, and Social Values
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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