Summary
"A critical translation of René Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States"--Provided by publisher. Full description
- BOOK 1
- Early Developments: From the Colonial Period to the Philadelphia Centennial
- pt. 1
- Colonial America
- Looking Backward
- pt. 2
- Science or Sentiment
- [Historical Introduction, 1776
- 1840]
- 1.
- Encyclopedic Spirit
- 2.
- Search for a National Style
- pt. 3
- Critical Era
- [Historical Introduction, 1840
- 1876]
- 1.
- Taste for Anecdote and Realism
- 2.
- Discovery of History
- BOOK 2
- Triumph of Quality: Major Collections from the Philadelphia Centennial to the Great War
- [Historical Introduction, 1876
- 1919]
- 1.
- Eclecticism
- 2.
- Notion of the "Old Master"
- 3.
- Vogue for Archaeology and "Pre-History"
- 4.
- Staying in Touch with the Contemporary Scene
- 5.
- Modern Art Museum.