Pierson, Stacey, Private collecting, exhibitions, and the shaping of art history in London , 2017
- Title(s):
- Private collecting, exhibitions, and the shaping of art history in London : the Burlington Fine Arts Club / Stacey J. Pierson.
- Published/Created:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN5245 .P54 2017 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13587249
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "An Ashgate book"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index.
"The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen's club with a singular remit - to exhibit members' art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians, and museum curators. Exhibitions at their grand house in Mayfair brought many private collections and collectors to light, using members' social connections to draw upon the finest and most diverse objects available. Through their unique mode of presentation, which brought museum-style display and interpretation to a grand domestic-style gallery space, they also brought two forms of curatorial and art-historical practice together in one unusual setting, enabling an unrestricted form of connoisseurship, where new categories of art were defined and old ones expanded. The history of this remarkable group of people has yet to be told and is explored here for the first time. Through a framework of exhibition themes ranging from Florentine painting to Ancient Egyptian art, a study of lenders, objects, and their interpretation paints a picture of private collecting activities, connoisseurship and art world practice that is surprisingly diverse and interconnected."--Back cover. - Subject Terms:
- Art -- Collectors and collecting -- England -- London -- History.Art -- Collectors and collecting.Art -- Exhibition techniques -- History.Art -- Exhibition techniques.Burlington Fine Arts Club.Burlington Fine Arts Club.England -- London.
- Form/Genre:
- History.
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- Introducton : a new gentlemen's club for London
- Paintings and prints in Europe and Britain
- Ceramics east and west
- Persia, Egypt, and India
- Indigenous and primitive art
- The club, its legacy, and the historiography of collecting and display.