The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its...
Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared. London: Thames and Hudson, [1982]. Quarto (10-1/4" x 8-1/4" x 2"; 26 cm x 20.5 cm x 5 cm) xxiii, 691 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover, fine in very good dust jacket. Internally clean. $35. * A study exploring the global evolution of art collecting and its associated cultural behaviors. Alsop isolates and analyzes the complex networks of five specific, interconnected phenomena that define an established art tradition: art collecting, art history, art criticism, the art market, and the development of museums. This work traces these patterns across diverse civilizations, including classical Greece, imperial Rome, Renaissance Europe, and traditional China and Japan, exploring how the emergence of art collecting fundamentally transformed the legal, economic, and aesthetic value of artistic production throughout history.
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