{"product_id":"america-and-the-art-of-flanders-9780271086088","title":"America and the Art of Flanders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays by twelve scholars and museum curators examining the allure of Flemish painting to Americans over the past centuries, chronicling the roles played by determined individuals in forming private and public collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAmerica and the Art of Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e is yet another excellent volume in an already impressive series on the history of collecting in the United States. It investigates the changing interest in Flemish art over time—and what happens when private love of art becomes institutional collecting. It also deals with many different American museum collections as part of a greater national collection. This is rarely done, and it is great food for thought.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Peter Hecht,Professor Emeritus of Art History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAmerica and the Art of Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thorough evaluation of the different forces that shaped collectors’ taste for Flemish art in the United States, thereby furthering our understanding of the diverse processes and mechanisms that constitute the creation of collections, both public and private. As such, the volume is a milestone in the systematic study of collecting and taste in America, as well as an important contribution to the history of collecting as an expanding research field explored from the academic as well as museum perspective.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ulrike Müller \u003ci\u003ecaa.reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“America and the Art of Flanders [...] gathers together a dozen carefully researched, eloquently written, and beautifully illustrated essays bringing new and detailed focus to the American enthusiasm for Flemish art over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Virginia Brilliant \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Collections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsmée Quodbach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Pleasure and Prestige: The Complex History of Collecting Flemish Art in America Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1. The Early Years: The Formation of America’s Taste for Flemish Painting\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tBefore Modern Connoisseurship: Robert Gilmor, Jr.’s, Quest for Flemish Paintings in the Early Republic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLance Humphries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tCollecting the Art of Flanders in Antebellum New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret R. Laster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tThe American Van Dyck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Eaker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tA Family Affair: Bruegel and Sons in America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouisa Wood Ruby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2. The Gilded Age and Beyond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tIn Search of Major Masters: Boston’s History of Collecting Flemish Baroque Painting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonni Baer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\t“Never a Dull Picture”: John Graver Johnson Collects Flemish Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsmée Quodbach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.\tCreating an Acquired Taste for Flemish Paintings: The Advice of W. R. Valentiner and Others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis P. Weller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.\tCollecting Seventeenth-Century Flemish Paintings in the Midwest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge S. Keyes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The Dissemination of Flemish Art Across America\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.\tFrom Personal Treasures to Public Gifts: The Flemish Painting Collection at the National Gallery of Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra Libby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.\tCollecting Rubens in America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarjorie E. Wieseman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11.\t“It Is a Great Painting for a Museum”: Collecting Flemish Paintings in Southern California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne T. Woollett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Artists’ Names\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400809783639,"sku":"9780271086088","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/america-and-the-art-of-flanders-9780271086088","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}