Bernard Berenson - A Life in the Picture Trade

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Cohen is the author of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists , winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker , The Guardian , The Believer, Best American Essays, and many other publications. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She keeps a notebook on looking at paintings at http: //rachelecohen.com. Klappentext An illuminatingnew biography of the connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art" "An insightful, richly detailed account of Bernard Berenson's brilliant transformation from an immigrant Jew and son of a tin peddler into a connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting and a dealer in secret partnership with Joseph Duveen. With the keen gaze that Berenson brought to a picture, Rachel Cohen analyzes his high-wire act of self-invention against the glittering, aristocratic, anti-Semitic world of art collecting."--Cynthia Saltzman Zusammenfassung An illuminating new biography of the connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rachel Cohen, Cohen Rachel
• Verlag: Yale University Press Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.10.2013
• EAN: 9780300149425
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14942-5
• Seiten: 344
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 220 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Jewish Lives
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, ART / Business Aspects, Biography: arts & entertainment, Jewish Studies, Biography: arts and entertainment, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Art: Financial Aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities