The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded Age, 1867-1893

This transatlantic study analyses a missing chapter in the history of art collecting, the first art market bubble in the United States. In the decades following the Civil War, French art monopolized art collections across the United States. During this "Gilded Age picture rush," the commercial art system-art dealers, galleries, auction houses, exhibitions, museums, art journals, press coverage, art histories, and collection catalogues-established a strong foothold it has not relinquished to this day. In addition, a pervasive concern for improving aesthetics and providing the best contemporary art to educate the masses led to the formation not only of private art collections, but also of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the publication of art histories.Richly informed by collectors'' and art dealers'' diaries, letters, stock books, journals, and hitherto neglected art histories, offers a fresh perspective on this trailblazing era.>

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• Authors: Leanne M Zalewski, Leanne M. Zalewski
• Assisted by: Kathryn Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781501388361
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-8836-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 226 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Contextualizing Art Markets
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; New York, France, ART / History / General, ART / European, ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Modernism, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA)