Antiques the history of an idea /
Rosenstein, Leon, 1943-
Antiques the history of an idea / Leon Rosenstein. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Understanding antiques -- An antique's story : the Nef -- A definition of the antique -- An archeology of antiques : a history of antique collecting and connoisseurship -- Collecting and connoisseurship in the Greco-Roman world -- The Chinese analogue -- Medieval survival -- Renaissance -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Revolutions Romantic and industrial : the nineteenth century -- The American century -- Archeological conclucions -- The ten criteria of antiques -- Antiques and civilization.
"In Antiques: The History of an Idea, Leon Rosenstein, a distinguished philosopher who has also been an antiques dealer for more than twenty years, offers a sweeping and lively account of the origin and development of the antique as both a cultural concept and an aesthetic category. He shows that the appeal of antiques is multifaceted: it concerns their value as commodities, their age and historical and cultural associations, their uniqueness, their sensuous and tactile values, their beauty."--Jacket.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780801463822
Antiques--History.
Antiques business--History.
Collectors and collecting--History.
Aesthetics--Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
NK600 / .A585 2009
Antiques the history of an idea / Leon Rosenstein. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Understanding antiques -- An antique's story : the Nef -- A definition of the antique -- An archeology of antiques : a history of antique collecting and connoisseurship -- Collecting and connoisseurship in the Greco-Roman world -- The Chinese analogue -- Medieval survival -- Renaissance -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Revolutions Romantic and industrial : the nineteenth century -- The American century -- Archeological conclucions -- The ten criteria of antiques -- Antiques and civilization.
"In Antiques: The History of an Idea, Leon Rosenstein, a distinguished philosopher who has also been an antiques dealer for more than twenty years, offers a sweeping and lively account of the origin and development of the antique as both a cultural concept and an aesthetic category. He shows that the appeal of antiques is multifaceted: it concerns their value as commodities, their age and historical and cultural associations, their uniqueness, their sensuous and tactile values, their beauty."--Jacket.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780801463822
Antiques--History.
Antiques business--History.
Collectors and collecting--History.
Aesthetics--Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
NK600 / .A585 2009