Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 /
Guilding, Ruth.
Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 / Ruth Guilding. - vi, 410 pages : illustrations (some color) 30 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Annexing history: Lord Arundel, Lord Pembroke and their ancient marbles -- Atavism in a Palladian frame: myths of ancestry and new Romans -- Temples of liberty and other polemics -- Buying (and selling) taste -- Competing for reputation -- A partial enlightenment -- The connoisseurship of libertinism: a diversion -- Recreating the antique as neoclassical ideal -- Memorials, souvenirs and speaking stones -- The romantic museum: antique sculpture in the public realm.
A re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues. Analyzing the motives the drove "Marble Mania" in England from the 17th to 19th centuries, it examines how the trend entrenches the ideals of connoisseurship and taste, exacerbates socio-economic inequities, and serves nationalist propaganda.
9780300208191
Sculpture, Classical--England
NB 85 / .G943 2014
Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 / Ruth Guilding. - vi, 410 pages : illustrations (some color) 30 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Annexing history: Lord Arundel, Lord Pembroke and their ancient marbles -- Atavism in a Palladian frame: myths of ancestry and new Romans -- Temples of liberty and other polemics -- Buying (and selling) taste -- Competing for reputation -- A partial enlightenment -- The connoisseurship of libertinism: a diversion -- Recreating the antique as neoclassical ideal -- Memorials, souvenirs and speaking stones -- The romantic museum: antique sculpture in the public realm.
A re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues. Analyzing the motives the drove "Marble Mania" in England from the 17th to 19th centuries, it examines how the trend entrenches the ideals of connoisseurship and taste, exacerbates socio-economic inequities, and serves nationalist propaganda.
9780300208191
Sculpture, Classical--England
NB 85 / .G943 2014
