TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guilding, Ruth.
TI  - Owning the past: why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 
SN  - 9780300208191
AV  - NB 85 .G943 2014
KW  - Sculpture, Classical
KW  - England
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -