The evolution of taste in American collecting / / René Brimo ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Kenneth Haltman

• Autore: Brimo René <1911-1948, >
• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 405 pages )
• Disciplina: 709.73
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics; Art museums - United States; Art - Collectors and collecting - United States; Art - United States - History
• Soggetto non controllato: America; Brimo; Haltman; United States; art history; art; united states; us; usa; ”European art market”; ”art collecting”; ”biographical study”; ”patronage”
• Persona (resp. second.): HaltmanKenneth <1957->
• Note generali: Originally published as L'évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'après l'histoire des collections by René Brimo (Paris, 1938).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-370) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Making Sense of an Unusual Contribution to Art History -- Notes -- Th e Evolution of Taste in American Collecting -- Preface -- Introduction -- Book 1: Early Developments: From the Colonial Period to the Philadelphia Centennial -- Book 2: The Triumph of Quality: Major Collections from the Philadelphia Centennial to the Great War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "A critical translation of Rene Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: The evolution of taste in American collecting
• ISBN: 0-271-07786-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792568803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II