Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840 - Couverture rigide

Guilding, Ruth

 
9780300208191: Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840
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ISBN 10 : 0300208197 ISBN 13 : 9780300208191
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the motives that drove “Marble Mania” in England from the 17th through the early 19th century, Ruth Guilding examines how the trend of collecting antique sculpture entrenches the ideals of connoisseurship and taste, exacerbates socioeconomic inequities, and serves nationalist propaganda. Even today, for the individuals or regimes that possess them, classical statuary performs as a symbol of authority or as the trophies of a “civilized” power. From Adolf Hitler posing for the press beside an ancient copy of Myron’s Discobolus to the 2002 sale of the Newby Venus for a record price of about $13 million to the Emir of Qatar, marble mania remains unabated. With insider access to private collections, Guilding writes with verve and searing insight into this absorbing fixation.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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À propos de l?auteur

Ruth Guilding is an independent scholar and critic.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300208197
ISBN 13 
9780300208191
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
412
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