The Passionate Collector
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The Passionate Collector
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Author : Roy R. Neuberger
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2003-05-13
The Passionate Collector written by Roy R. Neuberger and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-13 with Business & Economics categories.
"Few living persons have served the Metropolitan Museum of Art-indeed, the entire world of art and art museums-longer, or with more distinction, than Roy Neuberger. A man of taste, passion, persistence, and generosity, he has shared much of his great private collection with the public, and for generations has supported activities that bring people to museums, and motivate them to return again and again. Now, this giant of a man has recorded eighty years of his life-and the result is entertaining, illuminating, and, like the tireless gentleman himself, inspiring." -Philippe de Montebello, Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Equal to his passion for investing is Roy Neuberger's love for art-which he has collected and encouraged for eight decades. In The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art, you'll follow this fascinating financial figure and great patron of the arts from the streets of 1920s Paris to the museums of New York as he develops the eye of a connoisseur and begins to collect great contemporary art. Vivid detail puts you in the center of the action as Neuberger collects the brilliant artists of his time-Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper; works with legendary art dealers Paul Rosenberg, Betty Parsons, Sidney Janis, and Leo Castelli; and befriends avid collectors, including the incomparable Duncan Phillips. You'll follow Neuberger as he strives to further the cause of contemporary American artists by exhibiting, lending, and donating from his growing collection, and becoming an activist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney. You'll also see how the Neuberger Museum of Art was created at the urging of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and how it continues to fascinate art enthusiasts today. Part personal memoir, part history of art, The Passionate Collector offers a unique view of twentieth-century American art from a man who has lived it.
The Passionate Collector
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Author : Ellen Land-Weber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Passionate Collector written by Ellen Land-Weber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Collectors and collecting categories.
The Passionate Collector
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Author : Ellen Land-Weber
language : en
Publisher: Touchstone
Release Date : 1980
The Passionate Collector written by Ellen Land-Weber and has been published by Touchstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Collectors and collecting categories.
Collecting
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Author : Susanna Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Collecting written by Susanna Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Collectors and collecting categories.
29 diverse and interesting collections and their owners.
Obsessions
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Author : Stephen Calloway
language : en
Publisher: Miller/Mitchell Beazley
Release Date : 2004
Obsessions written by Stephen Calloway and has been published by Miller/Mitchell Beazley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Obsessions examines the extraordinary phenomenon of collecting. A brief and entertaining history of the collecting mania from ancient times reveals both famous and almost-forgotten collections of the past.
A Passion For Art
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Author : Irene Gludowacz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
A Passion For Art written by Irene Gludowacz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
The lure of the hunt, the thrill of the chase, that moment of discovery when dream and ideal meet in a single object - this is the collector’s world. To the collector, the world is their oyster, full of hidden pearls ready to be plucked down and shown to the greatest advantage among the other spoils of their obsession. Art and antiques experts, designers and couturiers, artists and entrepreneurs open their doors and their hearts to give us a rare view of some of the world’s most intriguing collections. But not just any collections; in these pages you’ll find opulent assemblages distinguished by their rarity, eclecticism and, most of all, by the style and flair with which they’ve been incorporated into the home setting.
A Passionate Collector
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Author : Harrogate (England). Borough Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
A Passionate Collector written by Harrogate (England). Borough Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Costume jewelry categories.
The Collector S Voice
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Author : Susan Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Collector S Voice written by Susan Pearce and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels. Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin
Collecting An Unruly Passion
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Author : Werner Muensterberger
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Collecting An Unruly Passion written by Werner Muensterberger and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Art categories.
From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy bears, and mugs, an amazing variety of objects have engaged and even obsessed collectors through the ages. With this captivating book the psychoanalyst Werner Muensterberger provides the first extensive psychological examination of the emotional sources of the never-ending longing for yet another collectible. Muensterberger's roster of driven acquisition-hunters includes the dedicated, the serious, and the infatuated, whose chronic restlessness can be curbed--and then merely temporarily--only by purchasing, discovering, receiving, or even stealing a new "find." In an easy, conversational style, the author discusses the eccentricities of heads of state, literary figures, artists, and psychoanalytic patients, all possessed by a need for magic relief from despair and helplessness--and for the self-healing implied in the phrase "I can't live without it!" The sketches here are diverse indeed: Walter Benjamin, Mario Praz, Catherine the Great, Poggio Bracciolini, Brunelleschi, and Jean de Berry, among others. The central part of the work explores in detail the personal circumstances and life history of three individuals: a contemporary collector, Martin G; the celebrated British book and manuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillipps, who wanted one copy of every book in the world; and the great French novelist Honoré de Balzac, a compulsive collector of bric-a-brac who expressed his empathy for the acquisitive passions of his collector protagonist in Cousin Pons. In addition, Muensterberger takes the reader on a charming tour of collecting in the Renaissance and looks at collecting during the Golden Age of Holland, in the seventeenth century. Throughout, we enjoy the author's elegant variations on a complicated theme, stated, much too simply, by John Steinbeck: "I guess the truth is that I simply like junk." Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
To The Collector Belong The Spoils
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Author : Annie Pfeifer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-15
To The Collector Belong The Spoils written by Annie Pfeifer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-15 with Art categories.
To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling, gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of collecting which that reimagines the relationship between author and text, source and medium. Placing Benjamin and Einstein in surprising conversation with James sharpens the contours of collecting as aesthetic and political praxis underpinned by dangerous passions. An apt figure for modernity, the collector is caught between preservation and transformation, order and chaos, the past and the future. Positing a shadow history of modernism rooted in collection, citation, and paraphrase, To the Collector Belong the Spoils traces the movement's artistic innovation to its preoccupation with appropriating and rewriting the past. By despoiling and decontextualizing the work of others, these three authors engaged in a form of creative plunder that evokes collecting's long history in the spoils of war and conquest. As Pfeifer demonstrates, more than an archive or taxonomy, modernist collecting practices became a radical, creative endeavor—the artist as collector, the collector as artist.