Marks of Opulence : The Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000-1914

Platt, Colin

ISBN 10: 0002571005 ISBN 13: 9780002571005

Verlag: HarperCollins, London, UK, 2004

Sprache: Englisch

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First edition, first printing. xx, 332pp, 4 plate sections mainly in colour. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Some visible shelf wear. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket very lightly chipped along edges, price unclipped. 8vo. Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History.

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Titel

Marks of Opulence : The Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000-1914

Verlag

HarperCollins, London, UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0002571005

ISBN-13

9780002571005

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st Edition.

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Near Fine

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'In the relation of money to art, the man who has money will rule the man who has art…for starving men are weak.' Colin Platt's magnificent new book explores the connection between the rich and powerful patron and the talented artist.

Marks of Opulence is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of modernism. Tracing the history from the discovery of silver in the Harz mountains, through the catastrophic effects of plague in the 14th century, to the studied magnificence of papal and royal courts in the 16th and 17th centuries, Platt shows how the great and the good have always used art to bolster political power.

Arguing that the acquisitive instinct – felt by all of us in different ways – is central to the history of Western art, Platt traces how art began to move out of the palaces of the aristocracy into the homes of merchants, bankers and industrialists. From the mid-19th century onwards, and in the pre-war Belle �poque in particular, it was the immensely wealthy 'robber barons' and their widows – in London and Paris, in Berlin and Vienna, in Moscow and Barcelona, in Philadelphia and New York – who collected the work of the most innovative artists and broke the hold of the Academies on Western art.

Professor Platt's ambitious sweep through a thousand years of artistic endeavour in the West argues throughout that a superfluity of money is the chief driver of high achievement in the arts, and for the transforming power of great riches.

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Colin Platt is Professor of Art History at Southampton University. He is the author of many books including King Death : A History of the Plague, The Architecture of Medieval Britain, which was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History, and the classic The Medieval Town. He lives in Devon.

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