Irish intellectuals and aesthetics the making of a modern art collection / Marta Herrero.
Irish intellectuals and aesthetics the making of a modern art collection / Marta Herrero.
Irish intellectuals and aesthetics the making of a modern art collection / Marta Herrero.
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Publisher
Dublin, [Ireland] : Irish Academic Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N709.41709/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1
Outline of a sociology of art collections --
Ch. 2
A collection for the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art --
Ch. 3
Dublin's art world --
Ch. 4
The making of a collection for the Irish Museum of Modern Art --
Ch. 5
Displaying the collection.
Publication information
Publisher
Dublin, [Ireland] : Irish Academic Press, 2007.
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"Herrero offers a novel sociological approach to art collecting with a study of the practices involved in the making of the collection for the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Drawing on the work of sociologists Zygmunt Bauman and Pierre Bourdieu on intellectuals, it argues that art collecting can be theorized as a form of intellectual practic...
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Irish intellectuals and aesthetics the making of a modern art collection / Marta Herrero.
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Notes
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [195]-205.
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N709.41709/1
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74VKJbDP8GE3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJbDP8GE3
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ISBN
0716533278 (hbk.)
9780716533276 (hbk.)
DDC
709.4170904
MMS ID
991022285259702626
