Connoisseurship
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 September 2023
- ISBN 9780190923587
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 161x237x17 mm
- Weight 572 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 39 figures/color 447
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Despite the central importance of connoisseurship in the rarefied world of art collecting, it occupies an uncomfortable position in modern scholarship. On the one hand, the concept retains a significant role in the study of art and the care of public and private collections when it is linked with art appreciation, qualities visible to the attuned eye, or the processes of attribution and authentication. On the other hand, the last century has seen connoisseurship marginalized in academic discourse: it is often associated with amateurism, social elitism, status-display, and intellectual mystification.
The present collection of essays enters this breach and--by adopting a broad, interdisciplinary approach--considers connoisseurship afresh, investigating its practice in both familiar and unexpected places. Essays on the role of connoisseurship in Western art history appear alongside innovative, global perspectives on Chinese numismatics and walnut collecting, wine and coffee expertise, the market for geological specimens, and the parallels 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.
The volume includes full-color illustrations, notes, and thorough bibliographies. It will be of interest to those studying art history, visual culture, and forensics, as well as the subjects of each chapter.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction, Peter Stewart and Christina M. Anderson
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
Professionals, amateurs, and the market
5. Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c. 1848-1870, Tom Stammers
6. Wilhelm von Bode's Technical Art History: The 1909-1912 Investigation of the Bust of Flora Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, Matthew Hayes
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 Quint?o
9. On Touching: Connoisseurship of Literati Walnuts in Beijing, I-Yi Hsieh
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