The evolution of taste in American collecting / René Brimo ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Kenneth Haltman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brimo, René, 1911-1948, author.

Contributor:

Haltman, Kenneth, 1957- translator, editor, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'après l'histoire des collections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Art--United States--History.

Art.

Art--Collectors and collecting.

United States.

History.

Art--Collectors and collecting--United States.

Art museums--United States.

Art museums.

Aesthetics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 405 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

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.

Contents:

Book 1 Early Developments: From the Colonial Period to the Philadelphia Centennial

Part 1 Colonial America Looking Backward 96

Part 2 Science or Sentiment [Historical Introduction, 1776-1840] 107

1 Encyclopedic Spirit 111

2 The Search for a National Style 121

Part 3 The Critical Era [Historical Introduction, 1840-1876] 131

1 The Taste for Anecdote and Realism 135

2 The Discovery of History 151

Book 2 The Triumph of Quality: Major Collections from the Philadelphia Centennial to the Great War

[Historical Introduction, 1876-1919] 166

1 Eclecticism 171

2 The Notion of the "Old Master" 195

3 The Vogue for Archaeology and "Pre-History" 226

4 Staying in Touch with the Contemporary Scene 255

5 The Modern Art Museum 272.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

"Originally published as L'évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'après l'histoire des collections by René Brimo (Paris, 1938)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271073248

0271073241

OCLC:

953867281