Main entry:

Vázquez, Oscar E., 1956-

Title & Author:

Inventing the art collection : patrons, markets, and the state in nineteenth-century Spain / Oscar E. Vázquez.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.
List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the subject of collecting -- Mapping the Madrid art market -- The search for audiences -- Arts administration and state collections -- "Her Majesty's Patrimony" -- Collections and genealogies -- "Speculators with Bad Intentions" -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

"The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts - paintings, furniture, even ladies' fans - increased sharply in nineteenth-century Spain, and new institutions and practices for exhibiting as well as valorizing "art" were soon formed. Oscar Vazquez maps this cultural landscape, tracing the connections between the growth of art markets and changing patterns of collecting. Unlike many earlier students of collecting, he focuses not upon questions of taste but rather upon the discursive and institutional frameworks that came to regulate the economic and symbolic worth of art at all levels of Spanish society."
"Drawing upon sources that range from newspaper reviews to notarial documents, Vazquez shows how collecting acquired the power to mediate debates over individual, regional, and national identity. His book also looks at the emergence of a new state apparatus for arts administration and situates these social and political changes in the broader European context. Inventing the Art Collection will be of interest to historians and sociologists of Spain and Europe as well as art historians and cultural theorists."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0271020849 (acid-free paper)
9780271020846 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Art Collectors and collecting Spain History 19th century.
Art patronage Spain History 19th century.
Art Collectionneurs et collections Espagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Mécénat Espagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Art Collectors and collecting.
Art patronage.
Kunstbevordering.
Kunstcollecties.
Art Collectors and collecting Spain 19th century.
Art Collectionneurs et collections Espagne 19e siècle.
Mécènes Collectionneurs et collections Espagne 19e siècle.
Spain.
1800-1899

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219741
Call No.: N5277 .V39 2001
Status: Available