Antiques : the history of an idea

Antiques : the history of an idea / Leon Rosenstein.

"In Antiques: The History of an Idea, Leon Rosenstein, a distinguished philosopher who has also been an antiques dealer for more than twenty years, offers a sweeping and lively account of the origin and development of the antique as both a cultural concept and an aesthetic category. He shows th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenstein, Leon, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Geschichte.
Antiques > History.
Antiques business > History.
Collectors and collecting > History.
Aesthetics > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
Aesthetics > Philosophy
Antiques
Antiques business
Collectors and collecting
Antiquität
Begriff
Sammlung
Kunstsammler
Antikviteter > historia.
Antikviteter > samlare och samlarverksamhet.
Idé- och lärdomshistoria.
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding antiques
  • An antique's story : the Nef
  • A definition of the antique
  • An archeology of antiques : a history of antique collecting and connoisseurship
  • Collecting and connoisseurship in the Greco-Roman world
  • The Chinese analogue
  • Medieval survival
  • Renaissance
  • The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • Revolutions Romantic and industrial : the nineteenth century
  • The American century
  • Archeological conclucions
  • The ten criteria of antiques
  • Antiques and civilization.

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