Center for the History of Collecting in America 2008 Symposium
Turning Points: Modern Art Collecting, 1913–Present
Friday, February 29, 2008, and Saturday, March 1, 2008
Turning Points: Modern Art Collecting, 1913–Present
The cause for a shift in artistic taste or a realignment
of collecting patterns at times may seem untraceable.
As one generation of collectors in the early twentieth
century placed a premium on old masters, another
favored the European avant-garde, while yet a third
focused on the work of contemporary American
artists. This symposium will identify turning points in
modern art collecting during the period initiated by the
Armory Show of 1913 and explore the socioeconomic
circumstances that made these shifts all but inevitable.
Keynote Address: To Have and To Hold
Robert Storr, Dean, Yale School of Art, Yale
University
For a program information, click here.
Friday and Saturday
February 29 and March 1, 2008
The Frick Collection
One East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
To register call 212-547-0667 or send an e-mail to center@frick.org.
Center for the History of Collecting in America 2007 Symposium
Turning Points in Old Master Collecting, 1830-1940
Saturday, May 19, 2007
The cause for a shift in artistic taste or a realignment of collecting patterns at times may seem untraceable. As one generation of collectors placed a premium on Italian primitives of the Quattrocento, another favored British portraiture, while yet a third focused on the work of contemporary artists. This symposium identified turning points in Old Master collecting during the so-called long nineteenth century and explore the socioeconomic circumstances that made these shifts all but inevitable.
For more information about the 2007 Symposium and for synopses of the presentations, please follow this link.
The Center for the History of Collecting in America was established to stimulate awareness and study of the formation of fine- and decorative-arts collections, from Colonial times to the present, while asserting the relevance of this subject to art and cultural history. The Center’s public programs provide a forum for thoughtful exchange that may expand and further stimulate scholarship in this discipline. |
