Author: Berger, Robert W.
Title: Public Access to Art in Paris: A Documentary History from the Middle Ages to 1800
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Hardcover. black boards w/ gilt spine printing. 295 pgs w/ bw illustrations. glossy black & blue dustjacket w/ bw illustration & white printing. Public Access to Art in Paris explores public accessibility to art (mainly painting and sculpture) on exhibit in Paris from the High Middle Ages to the year 1800. The topic is important, because from such displays emerged the familiar institutions and practices of the modern world: public museums and sculpture gardens, exhibitions of contemporary art, and popular art journalism. This book traces the origins and development of these familiar components in the city of Paris, where Robert Berger believes all the crucial elements first appeared together. The documentary format offers the reader an extensive array of source writings, many translated for the first time.--Amazon. VG/VG (boards have light scuffs, smudges. spine ends bumped & rubbed. light rubbing to corners. two price stickers to front endpaper w/ notation. dustjacket scuffed & scratch w/ series of scores to back; spine ends & corners creased or rubbed; curling to upper edges) .

Keywords: European Art, Public Access to Art, Art in Paris ; Art in Paris ; ;


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