{"product_id":"sheltering-art-rochelle-ziskin-9780271037851","title":"Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe turn of the eighteenth century was a period of transition in France, a time when new but contested concepts of modernity emerged in virtually every cultural realm. The rigidity of the state's consolidation of the arts in the late seventeenth century yielded to a more vibrant and diverse cultural life, and Paris became, once again, the social and artistic capital of the wealthiest nation in Europe. In \u003ci\u003eSheltering Art\u003c\/i\u003e, Rochelle Ziskin explores private art collecting, a primary facet of that newly decentralized artistic realm and one increasingly embraced by an expanding social elite as the century wore on. During the key period when Paris reclaimed its role as the nexus of cultural and social life, two rival circles of art collectors--with dissonant goals and disparate conceptions of modernity--competed for preeminence. \u003ci\u003eSheltering Art \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on these collectors, their motivations for collecting art, and the natures of their collections. An ambitious study, it employs extensive archival research in its examination of the ideologies associated with different strategies of collecting in eighteenth-century Paris and how art collecting was inextricably linked to the shaping of social identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rochelle Ziskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271037857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271037851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 9.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013","brand":"Rochelle Ziskin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075992973567,"sku":"9780271037851","price":103.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_926b966b-58c6-4669-9900-5a2dc8357788.jpg?v=1685462584","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sheltering-art-rochelle-ziskin-9780271037851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}