Hardcover
2000
by Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc, 2000. Hardcover. VG (Ex-art library, with spine label and identity marks on book block edges as well as outermost pages; mylar dj cover has slight tear along spine; otherwise clean.). Autumn orange cloth, silver & color illus. dust jacket in mylar cover; 320 pp., 300 color illus. A history of this Paris museum. "Traces the roots of the collection through the context of the contemporary society and creative activity happening at that time, with particular emphasis placed on the tensions between the public, the Academy, the art establishment and the government, that would determine the favor and disfavor of numerous '-isms' throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." (dj) Highly illustrated.
(Inventory #: 156982)