Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene - A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia, and her books include Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance, Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet, and Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing . Her writings also appear in the exhibition catalog for the Morgan Library & Museum’s centenary exhibition, Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy. Klappentext In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Greene was the first director of the Morgan Library, and her letters illuminate a life writ large.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Parker, Parker Deborah
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2024
• EAN: 9780674299818
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29981-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Berenson Green
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; New York, New York City, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Diaries, letters & journals, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Diaries, letters and journals, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology, Relating to African American / Black American people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black, ART / History / European / Medieval