BRITISH MODELS OF ART COLLECTING AND THE AMERICAN RESPONSE

The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 17001950 British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14 essays by distinguished art - and cultural - historians. Collectively, they examine points of similarit y and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States. Unlike most of their Continental Eu ropean counterparts, the English and Americans have historically been exceptionally open to collecting the art made by and for other cultures...[Read more]