Sale
Title | Sale PDF eBook |
Author | Anderson Galleries, Inc |
Publisher | |
Pages | 852 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Sale
Title | Sale PDF eBook |
Author | American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1662 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sale Catalogues
Title | Sale Catalogues PDF eBook |
Author | American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1302 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Catalogue
Title | Catalogue PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1028 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Antiquarian booksellers |
ISBN |
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Title | Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 PDF eBook |
Author | George Peabody Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Dictionary catalogs |
ISBN |
A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Books on the Fine Arts
Title | A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Books on the Fine Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Quaritch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Purchase of the Past
Title | The Purchase of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Stammers |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2020-06-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108807224 |
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.