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Past and present in art and taste : selected essays
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- Creator
- Francis Haskell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987
- Physical Details
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- xv, 255 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 0300036078, 9780300036077
- OCLC
- ocm14239790
- Spine title: Past & present in art and taste.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [227]-249.
- The apotheosis of Newton in art -- Gibbon and the history of art -- The Baron d'Hancarville: an adventurer and art historian in eighteenth-century Europe -- An Italian patron of French neo-classic art -- Art and the language of politics -- The manufacture of the past in the nineteenth-century painting -- The old masters in nineteenth-century French painting -- The sad clown: some notes on a nineteenth-century myth -- Doré's London -- Giorgione's Concert champêtre and its admirers -- A martyr of attributionism: Morris Moore and the Louvre Apollo and Marsyas -- A Turk and his pictures in nineteenth-century Paris -- The Benjamin Altman bequest -- Enemies of modern art -- Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978)