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    612-822-4611

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Beautiful Things: Sales Catalogues and the Private Collection in Fin-De-Siècle France

Beautiful Things: Sales Catalogues and the Private Collection in Fin-De-Siècle France

Mendelson, Valerie

Hardcover

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Art Instruction

ISBN10: 9004745912
ISBN13: 9789004745919
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
In Fin-de-Siècle Paris, private art collections abounded, and were celebrated and promoted in the lavish sales catalogues of the time as bouquets, symphonies and stage sets among other metaphors and their collectors were praised as amateurs or lovers of art. Valerie Mendelson shows that these anti-museological collections brought together arts of many differing periods, including contemporary art, enabling a comparative and conversational viewing that gave artists such as the Impressionists validation and support. This book offers a close and sustained exploration of how these texts and related photographs map the nuances of the amateur as artist with vivid examples drawn from industrial, intellectual and theatrical circles.

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