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In Pursuit of History

A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts

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A tribute to a major collection and its founder, this beautiful book illuminates life in colonial AmericaThis book showcases highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation, established in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr. and focused on 18th-century American fine and decorative arts. Essays explore the formation of the collection and its many areas of strength, enhancing current understandings of colonial history and material culture. The volume’s coeditor, H. Richard Dietrich III, unfolds an American story of a family’s entrepreneurship and speaks to his father’s varied yet interconnected collecting interests, as well as the common threads that unified them. An array of specialists explore the scope and uncommon richness of the foundation’s holdings, of which books and manuscripts account for half. Chinese export wares, furniture, silver, fraktur, and other decorative arts, and paintings of historical importance speak in varied ways to the nature of colonial identity, while objects related to the whaling trade signal the new nation’s maritime focus. With striking new photography and insightful scholarship, In Pursuit of History brings to life both the collector and the time period that he loved.Distributed for the Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Dietrich American Foundation

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In Pursuit of History, Edward S. Cooke Jr., Kathleen A. Foster, Michael P Dyer, David L. Barquist

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2020
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Tytuł
In Pursuit of History
Podtytuł
A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts
Język
angielski
Rok wydania
2020
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
304
ISBN10
0876332939
ISBN13
9780876332931
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5 z 5
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A tribute to a major collection and its founder, this beautiful book illuminates life in colonial AmericaThis book showcases highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation, established in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr. and focused on 18th-century American fine and decorative arts. Essays explore the formation of the collection and its many areas of strength, enhancing current understandings of colonial history and material culture. The volume’s coeditor, H. Richard Dietrich III, unfolds an American story of a family’s entrepreneurship and speaks to his father’s varied yet interconnected collecting interests, as well as the common threads that unified them. An array of specialists explore the scope and uncommon richness of the foundation’s holdings, of which books and manuscripts account for half. Chinese export wares, furniture, silver, fraktur, and other decorative arts, and paintings of historical importance speak in varied ways to the nature of colonial identity, while objects related to the whaling trade signal the new nation’s maritime focus. With striking new photography and insightful scholarship, In Pursuit of History brings to life both the collector and the time period that he loved.Distributed for the Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Dietrich American Foundation