Art and Common Sense (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Royal Cortissoz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330433114 ISBN 13 : 9781330433119

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how a legendary collector shaped art in America and beyond, through sharp analysis and vivid portraits of a towering figure and his era.

Royal Cortissoz offers a thoughtful look at J. Pierpont Morgan as an art collector, showing how his purchases and loans helped build major museums and shape public taste. The book blends criticism of portraits with stories from dealer rooms and galleries, revealing the man behind the vast collections and the impact of his choices on modern art.

What you’ll experience:
- An accessible, clear narrative about Morgan’s collecting career and its cultural impact
- Close examination of Sargent portraits and how the painter’s approach differs from others
- Anecdotes about auctions, miniatures, and the wider world of art dealing in Europe and America
- Reflections on taste, honesty, and the business of collecting

Ideal for readers of art history who want context on how a single patron influenced museums, artists, and public appreciation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

These are some impenetrable mysteries about a great work of art. The creative impulse behind it, the skill of eye and hand indispensable to its making, its strange garment of style which is doubly strange because it proclaims both the individuality of the artist and the indefinable tie of distinction binding all the masterpieces of all the arts together in a common glory who shall designate the origin of these things or dogmatize about the processes whereby genius makes them do its bidding? Genius itself cannot read the riddle. But so long as men care for art they will go on talking about it, as they have been talking about it since art began, for there is no greater happiness than that which is to be found in disinterested talk about the things of the mind. Whether we get any forrader or not and in spite of the mysteries there is always progress to be made in this elusive subject depends altogether upon just that point, whether we are disinterested or not.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330433114
• ISBN 13: 9781330433119
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 455
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