03950nam 22006131 450 991079066430332120230803021951.00-300-19914-710.12987/9780300199147(CKB)2550000001128165(EBL)3421314(SSID)ssj0001003220(PQKBManifestationID)11582174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001003220(PQKBWorkID)11028099(PQKB)10058540(MiAaPQ)EBC3421314(DE-B1597)485930(OCoLC)860904273(DE-B1597)9780300199147(Au-PeEL)EBL3421314(CaPaEBR)ebr10777598(CaONFJC)MIL528799(EXLCZ)99255000000112816520130611d2013 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrBernard Berenson a life in the picture trade /Rachel CohenNew Haven :Yale University Press,2013.1 online resource (343 p.)Jewish livesDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-14942-5 1-299-97548-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Introduction --1 Jews of Boston --2 First Conversions --3 Isabella, Mary, Italy --4 Looking at Pictures with Bernhard Berenson --5 Selling and Building: The Gardner Museum and the Villa I Tatti --6 The Picture Trade: Joseph Duveen, Belle Greene, Edith Wharton --7 Nicky Mariano and the Library --8 The Retrospective View --NOTES --SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INDEXWhen Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with his vast erudition, incredible eye, and uncanny skill at attributing paintings. They visited Berenson at his beautiful Villa I Tatti, in the hills outside Florence, and walked with him through the immense private library-which he would eventually bequeath to Harvard-without ever suspecting that he had grown up in a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family that had struggled to survive in Boston on the wages of the father's work as a tin peddler. Berenson's extraordinary self-transformation, financed by the explosion of the Gilded Age art market and his secret partnership with the great art dealer Joseph Duveen, came with painful costs: he hid his origins and felt that he had betrayed his gifts as an interpreter of paintings. Nevertheless his way of seeing, presented in his books, codified in his attributions, and institutionalized in the many important American collections he helped to build, goes on shaping the American understanding of art today. This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the way his family and companions-including his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, his lover Belle da Costa Greene, and his dear friend Edith Wharton-helped to form his ideas and his legacy. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson's inner world and exceptional visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces-new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars-that profoundly affected his life.Jewish lives (New Haven, Connecticut)Art historiansUnited StatesBiographyArt historians709.2BBIO018000BIO002000ART015080bisacshCohen Rachel1973-1541630MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790664303321Bernard Berenson3793958UNINA03457oam 2200661I 450 991079998700332120230207225052.01-135-78905-31-135-78906-11-280-05686-X0-203-22047-110.4324/9780203220474 (CKB)1000000000251186(EBL)181180(OCoLC)826853500(SSID)ssj0000300695(PQKBManifestationID)11232948(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300695(PQKBWorkID)10258637(PQKB)10451380(MiAaPQ)EBC181180(Au-PeEL)EBL181180(CaPaEBR)ebr10099421(CaONFJC)MIL5686(OCoLC)647435168(EXLCZ)99100000000025118620180331d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJapan--change and continuity /edited by Javed Maswood, Jeffrey Graham, and Hideaki MiyajimaLondon ;New York :RoutledgeCurzon,2002.1 online resource (239 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-86284-3 0-7007-1644-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Japan - Change and Continuity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Much ado about nothing? The limited scope of political reform in Japan; 3 Regulatory reforms in Japan: issues and prospects; 4 Reforming Japanese banks and the financial system; 5 Changes in the J-type firm: from bank-centred governance to internal governance; 6 Continuity and change in Japanese human capital formation; 7 Changing environmental policy agendas: Japan's approach to international environmental problems8 Crusaders of the lost archipelago: the changing relationships between environmental NGOs and government in Japan9 Immigration and citizenship in contemporary Japan; 10 The reformatting of Japan for the people: science, technology and the new economy; 11 Japanese 'Education Reform': the plan for the twenty-first century; 12 Conclusion; IndexJapan is currently undergoing many interesting changes, which the Japanese government trumpets as fundamental reform, but which some observers suspect will turn out to be superficial, part of a long sequence of changes which have been much less far-reaching than at first anticipated. This book provides a survey of the many changes currently in progress in Japan, including political reform, economic deregulation and liberalisation, and reforms to environmental policy, science and technology, education, and immigration policy. The essays in this volume explore the reform process in Japan overallPolitical planningJapanJapanPolitics and government1989-JapanEconomic policy1989-JapanSocial policyPolitical planning320/.6/095209049Maswood Javed692225Graham Jeffrey1588248Miyajima Hideaki1588249MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910799987003321Japan--change and continuity3877604UNINA