America collects eighteenth-century French painting
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Author
Contributions
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.) - Contributor
Publication
2017 - Lund Humphries, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
83,000 words, Guess
Page Count
332 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveamericacollectse0000unse
- ISBN-101848222343
- ISBN-139781848222342
- Library of Congress Control Number2017002879
- OCLC Control Number971087978
and 3 more
- Better World Books9781848222342
- Better World BooksP8-CLO-074
- Open LibraryOL26933481M
Classifications
- DDC759.409/033
- LCCND546 .A595 2017
- LCCND546.A595 2017
Alternate Titles
- French painting
- America collects 18th-century French painting
Description
"Authors use sixty-eight 18th-century French paintings from American museum collections to present a fascinating American social history through the lens of taste and collecting practices. Depictions of opulent fashion, court gatherings, and decadent pleasures appealed to late 19th- and early 20th-century American collectors. Neoclassical representations of Greek heroes, with stern lessons about democracy, ethics, and moral choices, had another appeal. Both inform our culture and society today and even feature several women artists as well as one of the first mixed-race painters in the Western canon."--Provided by publisher.
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