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1 online resource |
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COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Making Sense of an Unusual Contribution to Art History (Kenneth Haltman) -- Notes -- THE EVOLUTION OF TASTE IN AMERICAN COLLECTING (René Brimo) -- Preface -- Introduction -- BOOK 1: EARLY DEVELOPMENTS From the Colonial Period to the Philadelphia Centennial -- Part 1: COLONIAL AMERICA Looking Backward -- Part 2: SCIENCE OR SENTIMENT [Historical Introduction, 1776-1840] -- Chapter 1: Encyclopedic Spirit -- Chapter 2: The Search for a National Style |
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Part 3: THE CRITICAL ERA [Historical Introduction, 1840-1876] -- Chapter 1: The Taste for Anecdote and Realism -- Chapter2: The Discovery of History -- PLATES -- BOOK 2: THE TRIUMPH OF QUALITY: Major Collections from the Philadelphia Centennial to the Great War -- [Historical Introduction, 1876-1919] -- Chapter 1: Eclecticism -- Chapter 2: The Notion of the "Old Master" -- Chapter 3: The Vogue for Archaeologya nd "Pre- History" -- Chapter 4: Staying in Touch with the Contemporary Scene -- Chapter 5: The Modern Art Museum -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back |
| Summary |
"A critical translation of René Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States"--Provided by publisher |
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"Originally published as L'évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'après l'histoire des collections by René Brimo (Paris, 1938)." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English and French |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 29, 2016) |
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Art -- United States -- History
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
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Art museums -- United States
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Aesthetics.
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ART -- History -- General.
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ART -- American -- General.
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Aesthetics
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Art
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Art -- Collectors and collecting
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Art museums
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Haltman, Kenneth, 1957- translator, editor, writer of introduction.
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Évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'après l'histoire des collections. Translation of
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| ISBN |
9780271077864 |
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0271077867 |
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