Collection le plus cher dart et cadeaux aux musées : une anthropologie des dons, couverture rigide...

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Book Title：Art Collecting le plus cher and Gifts to Museums : An Anthropology of Donation Author：Van Der Grijp, Paul Language：English ISBN：9781032813219
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums : An Anthropology of Donations, Hardcover by Van Der Grijp, Paul, ISBN 1032813210, ISBN-13 9781032813219, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK

"Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be. Presenting case studies from Europe, North America, East Asia, and the South Pacific, th is concerned with both elite and popular collections and examines the act of donating art from the collectors point of view. Demonstrating that art museums depend on donations from private collectors, Paul van der Grijp emphasises that it is crucial to understand the psychological, sociological, economic, and educational motivations for gifting works of art to institutions. Taken together, the chapters argue that collectors donate to museums because the latter represent animagined community, to whom they would like to bestow a sacred gift. Private collectors are, Van der Grijp maintains, motivated to ensure the immortality of their collections and, ultimately, to preserve some memory of their own lives in the process. ArtCollecting and Gifts to Museums will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums, culture, art, anthropology, history and sociology"--.