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S'està carregant… J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector (1990)de Louis Auchincloss
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A history of the growth of the J.P. Morgan collections and an examination of the quality of Morgan's eye and the impulses behind his purchases. More than 130 illustrations present a survey of Morgan's treasures, which include the Fragonard panels and Vermeer's A lady writing. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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This is a coffee-table picture book containing about 30 pages of text and 100s of pictures of some of his most important works. It's not very in-depth and a quick read but for the right price it's a pretty book and, printed in Japan, it is of high quality material. One leaves it with a feeling of seeing a random pile of stuff, which is exactly what many critics of Morgans collection have expressed.
Morgan was a collector since childhood, the only difference between him and a beer can collector is the price of his toys - like all manic collectors he hoped to find immortality through material things - remember Citizen Kane and Rosebud - we all die and the lesson of Morgan is "you can't take it with you". ( )