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| 008 | 140408s2014 ctua b 001 0 eng | ||
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_aNB 85 _b.G943 2014 |
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_aGuilding, Ruth. _9122600 |
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_aOwning the past : _bwhy the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 / _cRuth Guilding. |
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_avi, 410 pages : _billustrations (some color) _c30 cm |
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_atext _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _2rdacarrier |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | _aAnnexing 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. | ||
| 520 | _aA 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. | ||
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_aSculpture, Classical _zEngland _9122601 |
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_c87047 _d87047 |
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