The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting

A critical translation of Rene Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States.

About the author

René Brimo (1911–1948) was an antiquarian dealer and a graduate of the École du Louvre, as well as a recipient of master’s degrees from Harvard and the Sorbonne and a docteur ès lettres from the University of Paris.Kenneth Haltman is H. Russell Pitman Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of many books, including Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818–1823, also published by Penn State University Press, and critical translations from the French, notably of works by Gaston Bachelard.

Summary

A critical translation of René Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Renae Brimo, Rene Brimo, René Brimo
• Assisted by: Kenneth Haltman (Translation), Haltman Kenneth (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2016
• EAN: 9780271073248
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07324-8
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 1225 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / American / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, United States of America, USA