The British as art collectors: from the Tudors to the present / James Stourton and Charles Sebag-Montefiore
2012, 1st Edition. London: Scala Publishers Ltd. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #333639
Physical description: 352 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index. Contents: Partial contents Royalty: collecting at court. Precursors: collecting and patronage in the Tudor age -- Jacobean antiquarians -- Earl and Countess of Arundel -- Charles I and the Whitehall circle -- Dispersal and commonwealth -- Restoration 1660-88 -- Aristorcracy: the country house boom. Grand Tour: the first phase -- Town and country in the early 18th century -- Grand Tour: high Summer -- Horace Walpole and antiquarian taste -- Archaeology and antiquity -- Plutocracy: metropolitan apogée. Orléans collection and Napolean's bonanza -- Tastemakers -- Champions of the British school -- Goût Français -- Hispanophile collecting -- Lure of Florence -- Democracy: collecting in the museum age. World beyond Europe -- Founding of the National Gallery -- Victorian rich -- Eclectics and aesthetes 1870-1914 -- Catching up: modernism 1880-1945 -- Specialists and scholars 1918-1945 -- From post-war to swinging sixties 1949-79 -- London: international art city 1979-2000. Subjects: Art museums Great Britain. Art Collectors and collecting Great Britain History. Art Great Britain History. Art. Art Collectors and collecting. Private collections Great Britain History. Art Great Britain History. Art Private collections. Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
Price: €195.00