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The Purchase of the Past - Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790-1890 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,854
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The Purchase of the Past - Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790-1890 (Hardcover): Tom Stammers

The Purchase of the Past - Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790-1890 (Hardcover)

Tom Stammers

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Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Epoque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments - not just financial but also emotional and imaginative - in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.

General

Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2020
Authors: Tom Stammers
Dimensions: 240 x 142 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-47884-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 1-108-47884-0
Barcode: 9781108478847

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