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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.