Main entry:

Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000.

Title & Author:

Past and present in art and taste : selected essays / Francis Haskell.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987.

Description:

xv, 255 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Spine title: Past & present in art and taste.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-249) and index.
The apotheosis of Newton in art -- Gibbon and the history of art -- The Baron d'Hancarville: an adventurer and art historian in eighteenth-century Europe -- An Italian patron of French neo-classic art -- Art and the language of politics -- The manufacture of the past in the nineteenth-century painting -- The old masters in nineteenth-century French painting -- The sad clown: some notes on a nineteenth-century myth -- Doré's London -- Giorgione's Concert champêtre and its admirers -- A martyr of attributionism: Morris Moore and the Louvre Apollo and Marsyas -- A Turk and his pictures in nineteenth-century Paris -- The Benjamin Altman bequest -- Enemies of modern art -- Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978).

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300036078
9780300036077

Subject:

Aesthetics, Modern 18th century.
Aesthetics, Modern 19th century.
Art patronage.
Esthétique 18e siècle.
Esthétique 19e siècle.
Mécénat.
patronage.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Beeldende kunsten.
Receptie.
Patronage.
Aesthetics 18th century.
Aesthetics 19th century.
Esthétique moderne 18e siècle.
Esthétique moderne 19e siècle.
Arts Aesthetics

Added entries:

Past & present in art and taste.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19708
Call No.: ID:87-B6877
Status: Available