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Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-revolutionary Paris

Door Colin B. Bailey

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#400738-LA15
Titel	Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-revolutionary Paris
Auteur	Bailey, Colin B.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0300089864
ISBN13	9780300089868
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art. Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors o... (Lees verder)f eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.
Pagina's	346
Conditie	Goed — Light foxing on top cut, dust jacket slightly worn along the edges.
Prijs	€ 45,00

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