The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts #27)
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- Synopsis
- A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art marketIn The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.
- Copyright:
- 1983
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 724 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691252261
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780691252254, 9780060100919
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/16/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Joseph Wright Alsop.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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