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Antiques : the history of an idea /

"In Antiques: The History of an Idea, Leon Rosenstein, a distinguished philosopher who has also been an antiques dealer for more than twenty years, offers a sweeping and lively account of the origin and development of the antique as both a cultural concept and an aesthetic category. He shows th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenstein, Leon, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Understanding antiques
  • An antique's story : the Nef
  • A definition of the antique
  • An archeology of antiques : a history of antique collecting and connoisseurship
  • Collecting and connoisseurship in the Greco-Roman world
  • The Chinese analogue
  • Medieval survival
  • Renaissance
  • The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • Revolutions Romantic and industrial : the nineteenth century
  • The American century
  • Archeological conclucions
  • The ten criteria of antiques
  • Antiques and civilization.