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Collecting with a View: Thomas E. Stammers

COLLECTING WITH A VIEW: A series introducing the research and collecting interests of our Steering Committee members. DR. THOMAS E. STAMMERS 1-What are you reading at the moment? Reading is often tied to reviewing- and I agree to review lots to ensure that I do manage to keep up with recent scholarship. The most exciting thing … Continue reading Collecting with a View: Thomas E. Stammers

SHC Book Review: Los Angeles: Getty Research Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting. By Julius von Schlosser

Los Angeles: Getty Research Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting. By Julius von Schlosser, Ed. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, and trans. Jonathan Blower, 2022. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, xii + 231[[., Paperback USD $65.00, ISBN 9781606066652 This is the latest volume in the series ‘Texts & … Continue reading SHC Book Review: Los Angeles: Getty Research Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting. By Julius von Schlosser

SHC Book Review: Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum., Ed. Donatien Grau, 2021. Los Angeles:Getty Research Institute, 256pp., Paperback USD $35.00, ISBN 9781606067192

Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum., Ed. Donatien Grau, 2021. Los Angeles:Getty Research Institute, 256pp., Paperback USD $35.00, ISBN 9781606067192 Museums are facing a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, their number seems to follow a continuous growth, with an apparently endless appetite to dedicate them to wide-ranging themes, or to build them as tourist destinations … Continue reading SHC Book Review: Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum., Ed. Donatien Grau, 2021. Los Angeles:Getty Research Institute, 256pp., Paperback USD $35.00, ISBN 9781606067192

SHC Book Review: Young, Gifted, and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.  Ed. Antwaun Sargent, 2020

Young, Gifted, and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.  Ed. Antwaun Sargent, 2020;  New York: D.A.P/Distributed Art Publishers Inc., 256pp., Paperback USD $49.95, ISBN 9781942884590 There is a long tradition of the touring exhibition catalogue dedicated to a private collection; these publications can be a useful peek into … Continue reading SHC Book Review: Young, Gifted, and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.  Ed. Antwaun Sargent, 2020