The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public

ISBN-13: 9781138272828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 396 str.

Elizabeth A. Pergam

Opis

An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. The book examines aesthetic, social, and economic issues of the day, and follows the Exhibition's reverberations in the development of art history and museum practices to the present day. A complete list of the exhibited works that are now in public collections throughout the world is also included.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: the first blockbuster; Art and commerce in Manchester at mid-century; "What to see and where to see it"; Guiding and recording: from pamphlets to photography; Practicing art history; Profiting through art; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Elizabeth A. Pergam received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her current research project focuses on American collecting of Old Master and British paintings. She was the Curator of the Dian Woodner Collection from 2006-2012 and is now on the Faculty of the Master's programs in Art Business and American Fine and Decorative Art at the Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York.