The British as art collectors : from the Tudors to the present / James Stourton and Charles Sebag-Montefiore
2012, First Edition. London : Scala Publishers Ltd. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #348374
ISBN: 9781857597493
Physical description; 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index. Contents; Partial contents Royalty: collecting at court. Precursors: collecting and patronage in the Tudor age -- Jacobean antiquarians -- Earl and Countess of Arundel -- Charles I and the Whitehall circle -- Dispersal and commonwealth -- Restoration (1660-88) -- Aristorcracy: the country house boom. Grand Tour: the first phase -- Town and country in the early 18th century -- Grand Tour: high Summer -- Horace Walpole and antiquarian taste -- Archaeology and antiquity -- Plutocracy: metropolitan apogée. Orléans collection and Napolean's bonanza -- Tastemakers -- Champions of the British school -- Goût Français -- Hispanophile collecting -- Lure of Florence -- Democracy: collecting in the museum age. World beyond Europe -- Founding of the National Gallery -- Victorian rich -- Eclectics and aesthetes (1870-1914) -- Catching up: modernism (1880-1945) -- Specialists and scholars (1918-1945) -- From post-war to swinging sixties (1949-79) -- London: international art city (1979-2000). Subjects; Art museums Great Britain. Art Collectors and collecting Great Britain History. Art Great Britain History. Art Collectors and collecting. Art museum. Art museums Great Britain. Art Collectors and collecting History. Great Britain. Art History. Great Britain. Art and Design. Art museums Great Britain History. Private collections Great Britain History. Art Collectors and collecting Great Britain History. Art - Collectors and collecting. Art Collectors and collecting Great Britain. Art Collectors and collecting Great Britain History. Art museums Great Britain. Art Great Britain History. Great Britain. Art Private collections. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
Price: €195.00