Salvaging the past
Georges Hoentschel and French decorative arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Contributions
- Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture - Contributor
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Contributor
Publication
2013 - Bard Graduate Center, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
71,250 words, Guess
Page Count
285 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27148447M
- ISBN-139780300190243
- ISBN-100300190247
- OCLC Control Number978193639
- OCLC Control Number811239068
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012038410
Classifications
- DDC745.0944/0747471
- LCCNK950.H64 A4 2013
Alternate Titles
- Georges Hoentschel and French decorative arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description
"This book explores the life, professional activities, artistic production and collecting practices of Georges Hoentschel through the objects he collected and created. Essays by the editors, joined by Amy F. Ogata, associate professor at Bard Graduate Center and Christine E. Brennan, senior research associate in Medieval Art as the Metropolitan Museum, address his biography, business contacts, and clients, as well as the arrival of the collection in New York, its lavish four-volume illustrated catalogue, and the medieval collections. Also discussed is Hoentschel's involvement with contemporary art, including his intriguing stoneware creations and designs for a pavilion and interiors at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Fully illustrated catalogue entries explore the astonishing range of objects he collected. Throughout the book, new documentary material from archives and newspapers illuminates this little-explored chapter in the history of collecting decorative arts between France and America at the dawn of the twentieth century."--book jacket.
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