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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.
- Standardized Title:
- Évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'apres l'histoire des collections. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Art museums--United States.
- Art museums.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--United States.
- Art.
- Art--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 405 pages )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English and French.
- Summary:
- "A critical translation of Rene Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Originally published as L'évolution du goût aux États-Unis d'après l'histoire des collections by René Brimo (Paris, 1938).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-370) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271077864
- 0271077867
- OCLC:
- 1080549910
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