| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors and Editors -- 1. Introduction, Peter Stewart and Christina M. Anderson -- PART I: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ART -- 2. Beazley, Daubert, and the Burden of Proof, Peter Stewart -- 3. The Scientific Approach to Collecting: Private Coin Collections in Qing Dynasty China, Lyce Jankowski -- 4. Connoisseurs, Scientists, and the Mineral Kingdom, Monica Price and Mike Rumsey -- PART II: PROFESSIONALS, AMATEURS, AND THE MARKET -- 5. Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c.1848-.1870, Tom Stammers |
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6. Wilhelm von Bode's Technical Art History: The 1909-.1912 Investigation of the Bust of Flora Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci -- PART III: CULTURAL CONNOISSEURSHIP AND THE SENSES -- 7. "The Stock of a Connoisseur?": The Development and Commercialization of Wine Connoisseurship in the Long Nineteenth Century, Graham Harding -- 8. Connoisseur Consumer and Specialty Coffee, Ronan Torres Quintão -- 9. On Touching: Connoisseurship of Literati Walnuts in Beijing, I-.Yi Hsieh -- Index |
| Summary |
This collection of essays considers the concept of connoisseurship afresh by investigating its practice in familiar places, such as Western art history, while also incorporating a global perspective with Chinese numismatics and walnut collecting, wine and coffee expertise, the market for geological specimens, and the resonances between Morellian connoisseurship and modern forensics. These essays resonate with one another in surprising ways and create new dialogues about connoisseurship's meaning and application, demonstrating that its practice can be both intuitive and scientific |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stewart, Peter
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| ISBN |
9780190923594 |
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0190923598 |
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