Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other work in the field of art markets challenging male-dominated histories by analyzing the work of female dealers who anticipat... Lees meer.

This interdisciplinary collection of case studies rethinks corporate patronage in the United States and reveals the central role corporations have played in shaping American culture. The case studies in this volume offers new methodologies and models for the subject of... Lees meer.

This transatlantic study analyses a missing chapter in the history of art collecting the first art market bubble in the United States. In the decades following the Civil War French art monopolized art collections across the United States. During this Gilded Age pictu... Lees meer.

Japonisme the 19th-century fascination for Japanese art has generated an enormous body of scholarship since the beginning of the 21st-first century but most of it neglects the women who acquired objects from the Far East and sold them to clients or displayed them in... Lees meer.

This transatlantic study analyses a missing chapter in the history of art collecting the first art market bubble in the United States. In the decades following the Civil War French art monopolized art collections across the United States. During this Gilded Age pictu... Lees meer.

By the turn of the 20th century Paris was the capital of the art world. While this is usually understood to mean that Paris was the center of art production and trading this book examines a phenomenon that has received little attention thus far. Paris-based dealers r... Lees meer.

Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today. What inspired collectors to build significant holdings of works from culture... Lees meer.

Before the tragedy of the Holocaust many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish establishing dynamic cross-Channel international and transatlantic networks. Aside from a few famous examples however we are only at the beginning of explorin... Lees meer.

This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States. Based on the author s field research carried out for over a decade and combining ethnographic mater... Lees meer.

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool s World Museum reflect the city s longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa s Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that w... Lees meer.

The nineteenth century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines the relationship between the avant-garde Barbizon landscape painter Th odore Rousseau 1812-1867 and this market explori... Lees meer.

Women Art and Money in England establishes the importance of women artists commercial dealings to their professional identities and reputations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grounded in economic social and art history the book draws on and sy... Lees meer.

As a result of the Napoleonic wars vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from public and private collections across continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of the market for Old Masters from the 1790s up to the early 1930s... Lees meer.

Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today. What inspired collectors to build significant holdings of works from cultures... Lees meer.

Ellen Emmet Rand 1875-1941 was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. She negotiated her career reputation family and finances in modern and commercially savvy ways-revealing the comp... Lees meer.