H118: Histories of Collecting

Professor: John Brewer
Email: jbrewer@hss.caltech.edu
Room: 115 Dabney / Tues 7-10 PM
Spring 2006

• Syllabus

• Articles

  • Week 2
    • Brewer, "Positioning the Market: Art, Goods and Commodities in Early Modern Europe"
    • Shelton, "Cabinets of Transgression: Renaissance Collections and the Incorporation of the New World"
  • Week 3
    • Findlen, "The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy"
    • Kaufmann, "From Treasury to Museum: The Collections of the Austrian Habsburgs"
    • Duncan, "From Princely Gallery to the Public Art Museum: The Louvre Museum and the National Gallery, London"
  • Week 4
    • Flaminia Gennari Santori, The Melancholy of Masterpieces. Old Master Paintings in America 1900-1914, pp. 11-122
    • Duncan, Civilizing Rituals, pp. 48-101
    • Brewer, Duveen, typescript
  • Week 5
    • Watson, From Manet to Manhattan, pp. 31-100,
    • Watson, From Manet to Manhattan, pp. 118-144
  • Week 7
    • Radnoti, The Fake, Forgery and its Place in Art, pp. 1-64
    • Rankin, "Herbert in Motion"
  • Week 9
    • Watson, From Manet to Manhattan, pp. 369-482
    • Chin-tao Wu, Privatising Culture. Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s, pp. 83-158, 212-304
    • Julian Stallybrass, Art Incorporated, pp. 1-99
  • Week 10
    • Dave Hickey, Air Guitar, pp 61-72
    • Rita Hatton and John A. Walker, Supercollector, pp. 1-30, 113-131, 171-179