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Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris Ziskin, Rochelle (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris
Ziskin, Rochelle (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction.
black & white halftones, colour illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 16, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271037851 |
| Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Genre | Aspects (Academic) > Art Aspects |
| Pages | 392 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 263 × 29 mm · 1.65 kg |