Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London

dc.contributor.author Stacey J. Pierson.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-10-24T04:53:59Z
dc.date.available 2018-10-24T04:53:59Z
dc.date.copyright 2018
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.description.abstract The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen's club with a singular remit - to exhibit members' art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians, and museum curators. Exhibitions at their grand house in Mayfair brought many private collections and collectors to light, using members' social connections to draw upon the finest and most diverse objects available. Through their unique mode of presentation, which brought museum-style display and interpretation to a grand domestic-style gallery space, they also brought two forms of curatorial and art-historical practice together in one unusual setting, enabling an unrestricted form of connoisseurship, where new categories of art were defined and old ones expanded. The history of this remarkable group of people has yet to be told and is explored here for the first time. Through a framework of exhibition themes ranging from Florentine painting to Ancient Egyptian art, a study of lenders, objects, and their interpretation paints a picture of private collecting activities, connoisseurship and art world practice that is surprisingly diverse and interconnected. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Routledge en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents PART 1 Introduction Introduction: A New Gentlemen's Club for London PART 2 Exhibitions Paintings and Prints in Europe and Britain Ceramics East and West Persia, Egypt, and India Indigenous and Primitive Art PART 3 Epilogue The Club, its Legacy, and the Historiography of Collecting and Display Appendix A: List of Special Exhibitions Mounted by the Club with Visitor Numbers (where Available) from 1869 Appendix B: Biographical Index of Active Members and Contributors en_US
dc.format.extent 213 en_US
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 9781138232624
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.museumsiam.org/handle/6622252777/453
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.publisher Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group en_US
dc.rights.accessrights สงวนสิทธิ์ในการเข้าถึงภายในพื้นที่ของสถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติเท่านั้น en_US
dc.rights.holder สถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ en_US
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dc.subject Art en_US
dc.subject Collectors and collecting en_US
dc.subject Exhibition techniques en_US
dc.subject.other Museum & Arts
dc.subject.other Burlington Fine Art Club. en_US
dc.title Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London en_US
dc.title.alternative The Burlington Fine Arts Club en_US
dc.type Text en_US
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