TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brimo,René
AU  - Brimo,René
AU  - Haltman,Kenneth
TI  - The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting
SN  - 9780271077864
AV  - N6505 
U1  - 709.73 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - History
KW  - Art museums
KW  - United States
KW  - Art
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - ART / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - America
KW  - Brimo
KW  - Haltman
KW  - art history
KW  - art
KW  - united states
KW  - us
KW  - usa
KW  - ”European art market”
KW  - ”art collecting”
KW  - ”biographical study”
KW  - ”patronage”
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Making Sense of an Unusual Contribution to Art History --; Notes --; Th e Evolution of Taste in American Collecting --; Preface --; Introduction --; Book 1: Early Developments: From the Colonial Period to the Philadelphia Centennial --; Book 2: The Triumph of Quality: Major Collections from the Philadelphia Centennial to the Great War --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of René Brimo’s classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Originally published in French in 1938, Brimo’s foundational text is a detailed examination of collecting in America from colonial times to the end of World War I, when American collectors came to dominate the European art market. This work helped shape the then-fledgling field of American art history by explaining larger cultural transformations as manifested in the collecting habits of American elites. It remains the most substantive account of the history of collecting in the United States.In his introduction, Kenneth Haltman provides a biographical study of the author and his social and intellectual milieu in France and the United States. He also explores how Brimo’s work formed a turning point and initiated a new area of academic study: the history of art collecting.Making accessible a text that has until now only been available in French, Haltman’s elegant translation of The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting sheds new critical light on the essential work of this extraordinary but overlooked scholar
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