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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Catalogue... Unknown Block-books ; Specimens of Carly Typography and Art... Manuscripts Et Books with Autograph Notes... Guillaume Libri
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library ... Apr. 26, 1861 ...
The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom Stammers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108807224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108807224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri ..
Catalogue of the mathematical, historical, bibliographical and miscellaneous portion of the celebrated library of Gugl. Libri
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, Esq., to the Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian Library
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical, Bibliographical, and Miscellaneous Portion of the ... Library of M. G. Libri, ... which Will be Sold ... on Thursday, the 25th of April and 11 Following Days, Etc. [With an Introduction by G. Libri.]
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the ... Library of M. Guglielmo Libri ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... on ... the 18th of July, 1861, Etc
Author: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri Carrucci Dalla Sommaia (Count.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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