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"--Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | "A critical translation of René Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published as L'évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'après l'histoire des collections by René Brimo (Paris, 1938)." |
| Physical Description: | x, 405 pages ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-370) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271073248 0271073241 027107325X 9780271073255 |
| Author Notes: | René Brimo (1911-1948) was an antiquarian dealer and a graduate of the École du Louvre, as well as a recipient of master's degrees from Harvard and the Sorbonne and a docteur ès lettres from the University of Paris. Kenneth Haltman is H. Russell Pitman Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of many books, including Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818-1823 , also published by Penn State University Press, and critical translations from the French, notably of works by Gaston Bachelard. |
