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The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Stammers, Tom (University of Durham)
The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890
Stammers, Tom (University of Durham)
Surveying the collecting culture from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, this study explores how material things became a central means by which the past was accessed and imagined in nineteenth-century Paris, revealing how the Revolution triggered the rise of a new market for antiques and new struggles over the custody of France's heritage.
370 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 30 Halftones, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 25, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9781108478847 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 374 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 158 × 28 mm · 664 g |
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