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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
The professional career and success of Wilhelm Bode (1845-1929)
relied on the business of connoisseurship. Like other contemporary
art historians involved in the commerce of art, he was entangled in
the reciprocal dynamics and interdependencies of the nascent
discipline of art history, connoisseurship and the art trade. The
volume introduces new material and a fresh perspective on Bode's
strategic participation in the Western art market, exposing the
particular consequences of these entanglements on the birth of the
art historical canon and showcasing his complex agency within the
art marketplace of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth
centuries.
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