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

Leanne M. Zalewski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8836-1 (ISBN)

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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, The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded Age, 1867-1893 offers a fresh perspective on this trailblazing era.

Dr. Leanne Zalewski has published articles on art collections, participated in numerous conferences on early Gilded Age art collecting, and received support for her research from the Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library, Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Collection, and the American Association of University Professors.

List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgments
Preface
Foreword

1. Introduction
2. Paris’s Guiding Light: The Universal Exposition of 1867
3. “Paris is for Sale” and Americans are Buying
3. Purchasing Ideologies: Seven New York Collections
5. Marketing the Collections: Loans, Periodicals, Books, and Prints
6. From Private Collection to Public Good: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
7. Conclusion: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Contextualizing Art Markets
Zusatzinfo	43 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-5013-8836-3 / 1501388363
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8836-1 / 9781501388361
Zustand	Neuware