Tom Stammers (University of Durham)

The Purchase of the Past

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Produktbeschreibung

Surveying the collecting culture from the French Revolution to the Belle à poque, this study explores how material things became a central means by which the past was accessed and imagined in nineteenth-century Paris, revealing how the Revolution triggered the rise of a new market for antiques and new struggles over the custody of France's heritage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478847
• ISBN-10: 1108478840
• Artikelnr.: 58341898

Autorenporträt

Tom Stammers is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. He is a historian of modern France, specialising in visual and material culture; he works frequently with museums and heritage organisations, including collaborating on exhibitions, and is a regular contributor to arts reviews like Apollo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Collection, recollection, revolution
1. Amateurs and the art market in transition (c.1780-1830)
2. Archiving and envisioning the French Revolution (c.1780-1830)
3. Book-hunting, bibliophilia and a textual restoration (c.1790-1840)
4. Salvaging the gothic in private and public spaces (c.1820-70)
5. Royalists versus vandals, and the cult of the old regime (c.1860-1880)
6. Allies of the Republic? Inside the sale of the century (c.1870-1895)
Conclusion. The resilience and eclipse of curiosité.