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ACQUIRED TASTES
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF COLLECTING FOR THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM |
| By: |
Stanley Ellis Cushing, David B. Dearinger |
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Hardback |
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£59.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0934552738 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780934552738 |
| Publisher: |
BOSTON ATHENAEUM LIBRARY |
| Pub. date: |
15 February, 2007 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
The historic Boston Athenaeum is one of the country's most prestigious repositories of books, paintings, sculpture, engravings, maps, photographs, manuscripts, decorative arts, and other artifacts. This book discusses the Boston Athenaeum's collections and the manner in which they were gathered from the early 19th to the early 21st centuries. |
| Synopsis: |
This book celebrates the 200th anniversary of the historic Boston Athenaeum, one of this country's earliest and most prestigious repositories of books, paintings, sculpture, engravings, maps, photographs, manuscripts, decorative arts, and other artifacts of history and design. "Acquired Tastes" is the first in-depth, scholarly study of the Boston Athenaeum's collections and the manner in which they were gathered from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. These topics are expanded and brought into sharper focus in fully-illustrated catalogue entries on a wide variety of objects that represent the breadth of the Athenaeum's holdings. From its founding in 1807, the Boston Athenaeum's primary mission has been to provide collections that stimulate study, discussion, and debate on all topics of interest to the enquiring mind. In the Enlightenment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the historic period that saw the founding of the Boston Athenaeum and similar organizations - it was believed that intellectual endeavors more easily germinated and thrived in an atmosphere that was spacious, comfortable, quiet, and aesthetically pleasing.Here, books and manuscripts could be preserved, logically organized, and made accessible, and utilitarian objects could be logically grouped with didactic ones for comparison and discussion. In this setting, too, fine examples of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and engravings fulfilled their traditional purposes of education and inspiration and - together with those from the world of science - stimulated imaginations, improved morals, and refined aesthetic tastes. Celebrate the Boston Athenaeum's 2007 bi-centennial with this lavish tribute, published in conjunction with one of the most ambitious Athenaeum exhibitions ever mounted. |
| Illustrations: |
219 colour & 16 b/w illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Boston Athenaeum Library |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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