The rare art traditions : the history of art collecting and its linked phenomena wherever these have appeared PDF
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/>, ^*, rf1 U»,JU*** o RARE ART TR IE The History of Art Collecting and Linked Phenomena Its JOSEPH ALSOP ESBN D-Db-DlDmi-S >^S^ - «=IS THE RARE ART TRADITIONS The HistoryofArt Collectingand Its Linked Phenomena JOSEPH ALSOP "Art historians have produced a rich literature on the history ofart patronage and art collecting through the ages, but what we know about the art market and the historyofartdealingiswoefully inad- equate....It has remained for a private sci r who is not an art historian by tr? Mr. Joseph Alsop, to accom- pl what we should have done long — ag H. W. Janson Department ofFine Arts New York University thefirstcomprehensive, serious hi r art collecting ever compiled, bu r is much more than that. Art col- let is not merely an idiosyncratic so- ci; Mbit, with both glorious and sordid It is also the basic element in a remaitcably complex behavioral system, which comprises art history, an art mar- ket serving art collectors, art faking, art (continued on backflap) 7cJS if NA^//^"/^yy^YYl^' BOSTOISI PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/rarearttraditionOOalso THE RARE ART TRADITIONS Also by Joseph Alsop FROM THE SILENT EARTH FDR, A Centenary Remembrance with StewartAlsop THE REPORTER'S TRADE with Robert Kintner AMERICAN WHITE PAPER MEN AROUND THE PRESIDENT with Turner Catledge THE 168 DAYS Robert Nanteuil: Le Cardinal Mazarin dans la Galerie Haute de Son Palais, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale Joseph Alsop THE RARE ART TRADITIONS THE HISTORY OF ART COLLECTING AND ITS LINKED PHENOMENA WHEREVER THESE HAVE APPEARED BOLLINGEN SERIES XXXV 27 • 3RINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS, New York Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney 5 Some of this material has appeared in different form in the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review ofBooks. The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art in 1978 were entirely based on this essay. The Mellon Lectures are issued as part of the Bollingen Series, published by Princeton University Press. Much earlier versions of the first chapters were also the basis of the Yaseen Lectures, delivered at the University of the State of New York at Purchase in 1976. therareARTtraditions. Copyright © 1982 by Joseph Wright Alsop. All rights reserved. Printed in theUnitedStatesofAmerica.Nopartofthisbookmaybeusedorreproducedinanymannerwhatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. firstedition Designer: SidneyFeinberg This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Alsop, Joseph Wright, 1910— The rare art traditions. Bibliography: p. Includes index. — — 1. Art Collectors and collecting History. 2. Art and society. I. Title. N5200.A4 1981 707'. 81^7218 ISBN 0-06-010091-5 AACR2 82 83 84 85 86 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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