Antiques : The History of an Idea.

Cover -- Antiques: The History of an Idea -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Preliminaries: Understanding Antiques: Why antiques? What is an antique? -- 1.1 An Antique's Story: The Nef -- 1.2 A Definition of the Antique -- 1.2.1 Artworks, Crafts, and Antiques -- 1.2.2 Beautiful and Rare: Collectibles, Souvenirs,Trophies, Religious Relics, Artifacts -- 1.2.3 Agedness as Style and as Material Endurance -- 1.2.4 The Evocation and Preservation of the Past World -- 2 An Archeology of Antiques: A History of Antique Collecting and Connoisseurship: How did the idea of antiques and the aesthetic response to them emerge over time? -- 2.1 Collecting and Connoisseurship in the Greco-Roman World -- 2.2 The Chinese Analogue -- 2.3 Medieval Survival -- 2.4 Renaissance -- 2.5 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2.6 Revolutions Romantic and Industrial: The Nineteenth Century -- 2.7 The American Century -- 2.8 Archeological Conclusions -- 3 The Ten Criteria of Antiques: Do antiques possess certain objective traits that elicit the connoisseur's aesthetic response to them? -- Conclusion: Antiques and Civilization -- Notes -- Index.

The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most prized possessions are those that have had a long history before they came into our hands. Part of the pleasure we gain from the.

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