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El coleccionista : Fernando García y su legado al Estado uruguayo / Carolina Porley.
LIBRA HF3684.6.G37 P67 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porley, Carolina, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Biografía (Montevideo, Uruguay)
- Biografía
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Garcia, Fernando, 1887-1945.
- Garcia, Fernando.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--Uruguay--20th century--History.
- Art.
- Merchants--Uruguay--Montevideo--Biography.
- Merchants.
- Industrialists--Uruguay--Montevideo--Biography.
- Industrialists.
- Bankers--Uruguay--Montevideo--Biography.
- Bankers.
- Collectors and collecting--Uruguay--Montevideo--Biography.
- Collectors and collecting.
- Manners and customs.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- History.
- Uruguay--Social life and customs.
- Uruguay.
- Uruguay--Montevideo.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 446 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Primera edición.
- Other Title:
- Fernando García & su legado al Estado uruguayo
- Place of Publication:
- [Montevideo] : Estuario editora, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- Summary:
- This book is about Fernando García (Uruguay 1887-1945), merchant, industrialist, banker and collector, and above all the history of his cultural legacy to the State. The author emphasizes his art collection, which included the largest set of works by Juan Manuel Blanes (152 pieces) assembled in Uruguay. The son of a Galician immigrant, García was a "new rich" -from the sale of alcohol and cigarettes- who transcend as a philanthropist and benefactor. His heritage was a way to "spiritualize" his wealth. However, by not complying with his testamentary wishes, the State de-historicized the patrimony received, a process that this book seeks to reverse by rebuilding the art circuit and the social and intellectual networks that facilitated and profiled that cultural consumption in Uruguay during the first half of the 20th century. The author's hypothesis is that the collector's legacy materialized some of the ideas that bid in the cultural field of Centennial Uruguay concerning the essence of the nation, the value of tradition and the ways of access to modernity.
- Contents:
- Prólogo / Laura Malosetti Costa, Gabriel Peluffo Linari
- Introducción. Una historia sobre la circulación y patrimonialización del arte
- Retrato de un coleccionista
- Coleccionar, legar y así vencer la muerte
- El coleccionista en el campo cultural del Uruguay del "Centenario"
- La "Madre Patria" en la galeria de Fernando García
- El coleccionista de la Patria
- Conclusiones
- Anexos: Anexo 1. El testamento del coleccionista
- Anexo 2. Inventario del legado artístico ingresado al Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes en 1945
- Anexo 3. Tasación del legado material y cultural de Fernando Garciþa
- Anexo 4. Relación de precios.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-418)
- ISBN:
- 9789974882966
- 9974882966
- OCLC:
- 1193234436
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