Sculpture Collections in Europe and the United States 1500-1930 - Variety and Ambiguity

Exploring the various forms taken by sculpture collections, this volume presents new research on collectors, modes of display, and the aesthetics of viewing sculpture, making a notable addition to the literature on the history of sculpture and art collecting as a cultural phenomenon.

About the author

Malcolm Baker, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of California, Riverside. As both a curator and a university teacher, he has written widely on the history of sculpture; his most recent book is The Marble Index. Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Inge Jackson Reist (Ph.D., Columbia University); Founding Director (now Emerita) of the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection. Reist's edited and authored publications focus on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art and the History of Art Collecting.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2021
• EAN: 9789004458468
• ISBN: 978-90-04-45846-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Coll
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries