Connoisseurship
"Within the rarefied world of art collecting, connoisseurship signifies esoteric knowledge used to judge the quality, exclusivity, desirability and even authenticity of art. As this collection of essays demonstrates, however, connoisseurship is not confined to the art world but rather practised...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Within the rarefied world of art collecting, connoisseurship signifies esoteric knowledge used to judge the quality, exclusivity, desirability and even authenticity of art. As this collection of essays demonstrates, however, connoisseurship is not confined to the art world but rather practised in a variety of settings by elites and consumers alike. This volume presents a fresh approach to connoisseurship, creating a broad international dialogue about its meaning and application. It ranges across such diverse fields as consumer history, sociology and ethnography, earth science, forensic science and art history. It demonstrates that connoisseurship can be both intuitive and scientific, utilizing comparison and tied to measures of value and market dynamics"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | "The contributions to this volume are derived, in part, from the 2015 workshop and build upon it." (Introduction, Seite 1) |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 240 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780190923587 978-0-19-092358-7 |