Great Collectors of Our Time. France and the USA
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Great Collectors of Our Time. France and the USA
49.99 €
After World War II, there was a huge shift in culture: the center of artistic life moved from Europe to America. The author himself puts it this way: "France is the mother and father of this book, and America is its grown-up child. And he begins the story with the history of Parisian collecting in the postwar period, a time of great hardship for Europe, explaining the transition to American dominance of the art scene.
How did auctions evolve from settling the debts of the dead or dividing property in divorce to high-profile social events? How did collectors move from prewar interest in Old Masters to Impressionists and modern art? How did New York and Los Angeles become major contemporary centers of art, art dealers, collectors, impresarios, and, of course, the artists themselves? The author also tells us how the subject of collecting became any work of art: from primitive masks to modernist painting and sculpture, from Chinese porcelain to European silverware, and collectors became different people with different financial resources: industrial tycoons, generic aristocrats, famous couturiers, and simple clerks. But most importantly, he shows us the collections and tells us about incredible collectors, many of whom were probably not previously known to the Russian reader.
How did auctions evolve from settling the debts of the dead or dividing property in divorce to high-profile social events? How did collectors move from prewar interest in Old Masters to Impressionists and modern art? How did New York and Los Angeles become major contemporary centers of art, art dealers, collectors, impresarios, and, of course, the artists themselves? The author also tells us how the subject of collecting became any work of art: from primitive masks to modernist painting and sculpture, from Chinese porcelain to European silverware, and collectors became different people with different financial resources: industrial tycoons, generic aristocrats, famous couturiers, and simple clerks. But most importantly, he shows us the collections and tells us about incredible collectors, many of whom were probably not previously known to the Russian reader.
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