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Within the rarefied world of art collecting, connoisseurship signifies esoteric knowledge used to judge the quality, exclusivity, desirability and even authenticity of art. As this collection of essays demonstrates, however, connoisseurship is not confined to the art world but rather practiced in a...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Connoisseurship (Oxford University Press)
Other Authors: Anderson, Christina M. (Christina Marie), 1966- (Editor), Stewart, Peter, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Connoisseurship.
Table of Contents:
  • Between science and art. Beazley, Daubert, and the Burden of Proof / Peter Stewart
  • The Scientific Approach to Collecting: Private Coin Collections in Qing Dynasty China / Lyce Jankowski
  • Connoisseurs, Scientists and the Mineral Kingdom / Monica Price and Mike Rumsey
  • Professionals, amateurs, and the market. Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c. 1848-1870 / Tom Stammers
  • Wilhelm von Bode's Technical Art History: The 1909-1912 Investigation of the Bust of Flora Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci / Matthew Hayes
  • Cultural connoisseurship and the senses. "The Stock of a Connoisseur?": The Development and Commercialization of Wine Connoisseurship in the Long Nineteenth Century / Graham Harding
  • Connoisseur Consumer and Specialty Coffee / Ronan Torres Quintão
  • On Touching: Connoisseurship of Literati Walnuts in Beijing / I-Yi Hsieh.