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| #2332462 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2008-12-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.14 x.88 x6.36l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A must-read for material culture studies|By Amateur des arts|This is a very well-written and enjoyable book. It is not best suited for a casual reader, or someone who wants to learn more about specific types of antiques. It is a series of thoughtful essays on the history of collecting, and on the principles that determine whether or not a object may be (or should be) consider||| "Rosenstein's Antiques: The History of an Idea is a marvelous surprise, a connoisseur's introduction to a conceptual category, the antique, demonstrably inseparable from the life of the arts, critically important for the philosophy of art, as well
The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most prized possessions are those that have had a long history before they came into our hands. Part of the pleasure we gain from the encounter with antiques stems from the palpable age and the assumed (sometimes imaginary) cultural resonances of the particular object. But precisely what is it about these objects that creates this attraction? What commo...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Antiques: The History of an Idea | Leon Rosenstein. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
