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The evolution of taste in American collecting /

A critical translation of René Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brimo, René, 1911-1948 (Author)
Other Authors: Haltman, Kenneth, 1957- (Translator, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016].
Subjects:
Art > United States > History.
Art > Collectors and collecting > United States.
Art museums > United States.
Aesthetics.
Table of Contents:
  • BOOK 1 Early Developments: From the Colonial Period to the Philadelphia Centennial
  • pt. 1 Colonial America
  • Looking Backward
  • pt. 2 Science or Sentiment
  • [Historical Introduction, 1776
  • 1840]
  • 1. Encyclopedic Spirit
  • 2. Search for a National Style
  • pt. 3 Critical Era
  • [Historical Introduction, 1840
  • 1876]
  • 1. Taste for Anecdote and Realism
  • 2. Discovery of History
  • BOOK 2 Triumph of Quality: Major Collections from the Philadelphia Centennial to the Great War
  • [Historical Introduction, 1876
  • 1919]
  • 1. Eclecticism
  • 2. Notion of the "Old Master"
  • 3. Vogue for Archaeology and "Pre-History"
  • 4. Staying in Touch with the Contemporary Scene
  • 5. Modern Art Museum.