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French sculpture : an American passion / Laure de Margerie ; with a contribution by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain ; [translation from French to English, Elisabeth Lyman, Miriam Rosen, Cole Swensen, and Susan Wise].
Fine Arts Library NB541 .M3713 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Margerie, Laure de, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sculptors--France--Influence.
- Sculptors.
- Sculpture, French--Appreciation--United States.
- Sculpture, French.
- Sculpture, French--Collectors and collecting--United States.
- Art, French--Collectors and collecting--United States.
- Art, French.
- Art in interior decoration--United States.
- Art in interior decoration.
- France--Relations--United States.
- France.
- United States--Relations--France.
- United States.
- Art, French--Collectors and collecting.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 495 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) : 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Ghent] : Snoeck ; ? : jointly published by Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), [2023]
- Summary:
- The extraordinary abundance of French sculptures in the United States is indicative of a specific taste for this area of French art, but also of the close proximity of Franco-American historical and artistic relations. The United States is the country outside of France with the largest number of French sculptures and the latter represent by far the majority of foreign sculptures. Once gathered, combined, connected, they weave the story of a taste. Their study makes it possible to detect trends and periods, to identify the personalities of dealers, collectors and curators, and to understand the supply channels of this transatlantic trade, from the place of production to the place of consumption, from the place of creation to place of appreciation. The purpose of this book is to give life and meaning to these works by placing them in their American context.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Laure de Margerie
- Introduction / Laure de Margerie
- Politics through Sculpture / Laure de Margerie
- Sculpture as Décor / Laure de Margerie
- Collecting Sculpture / Laure De Margerie
- Collecting Rodin / Antoinette Le Normand-Romain
- Conclusion: An Ongoing Passion / Laure de Margerie
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- Jointly published by the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (NHA) and Snoeck Publishers.
- Published simultaneously with the original French version La Sculpture française, une passion américaine.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-479) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789461618276
- 9461618271
- 9789461618269
- 9461618263
- OCLC:
- 1371241611
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