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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Bookmart
Author: L'Argus du livre de collection
Author: The Mastery Series. French
Author: Thomas Prendergast... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Learn French
Author: Les Livres de L'année
Author: French
Author: Diane L. ButturffPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom StammersPublisher: 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.
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738193269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description