The turn of the eighteenth century was a period of transition in France, a time when new but contested concepts of modernity emerged in virtually every cultural realm. The rigidity of the state's consolidation of the arts in the late seventeenth century yielded to a more vibrant and diverse cultural life, and Paris became, once again, the social and artistic capital of the wealthiest nation in Europe. In Sheltering Art, Rochelle Ziskin explores private art collecting, a primary facet of that newly decentralized artistic realm and one increasingly embraced by an expanding social elite as the century wore on. During the key period when Paris reclaimed its role as the nexus of cultural and social life, two rival circles of art collectors-with dissonant goals and disparate conceptions of modernity-competed for preeminence. Sheltering Art focuses on these collectors, their motivations for collecting art, and the natures of their collections. An ambitious study, it employs extensive archival research in its examination of the ideologies associated with different strategies of collecting in eighteenth-century Paris and how art collecting was inextricably linked to the shaping of social identities.
- ISBN:
- 9780271037851
- 9780271037851
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Category:
- History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
-
16-08-2012
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 392
- Dimensions (mm):
- 254x229x34mm
- Weight:
- 1.66kg
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