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Provenance - An Alternate History of Art
Gail Feigenbaum
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Description for Provenance - An Alternate History of Art
Hardback. A re-examination of the importance and legacy of provenance in the history of art. It goes beyond the narrow definition of the term provenance, which addresses only the bare facts of ownership and transfer, to explore ideas about the origins and itineraries of objects, consider the historical uses of provenance research. Editor(s): Reist, Inge. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 181 x 14. Weight in Grams: 692.
This is a fascinating re-examination of the importance and legacy of provenance in the history of art. This book goes beyond the narrow definition of the term provenance, which addresses only the bare facts of ownership and transfer, to explore ideas about the origins and itineraries of objects, consider the historical uses of provenance research, and draw attention to the transformative power of ownership. The result is a volume of essays that makes a strong case for recuperating provenance - what contributing author Anne Higonnet calls "so many epic tales compressed into such dry lists" - for the history of ... Read more
This is a fascinating re-examination of the importance and legacy of provenance in the history of art. This book goes beyond the narrow definition of the term provenance, which addresses only the bare facts of ownership and transfer, to explore ideas about the origins and itineraries of objects, consider the historical uses of provenance research, and draw attention to the transformative power of ownership. The result is a volume of essays that makes a strong case for recuperating provenance - what contributing author Anne Higonnet calls "so many epic tales compressed into such dry lists" - for the history of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606061220
SKU
V9781606061220
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About Gail Feigenbaum
Gail Feigenbaum is a former associate director of the Getty Research Institute. Inge Reist is chief of research collections and programs and director of the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick Collection, New York.
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