Collecting and Provenance : A Multidisciplinary Approach.
Publication
The book fills a gap in the study of provenance, taking the subject holistically and from multiple standpoints, which better reflect the widening interest in provenance from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

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- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Milosch, Jane.
- Published
- Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019
©2019 - Language
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English
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Electronic version Hosted by ProQuest
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (451 pages)
- Contents
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Collecting And Provenance
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I Provenance: Past and Future Challenges
Chapter 1 The Provenance of Provenances
Chapter 2 Intellectual Property and Ownership History
Chapter 3 Provenance Research in Museums: From the Back of the House to the Front
Chapter 4 Transforming Research Methodologies: The Frick Art Reference Library's Collaborative Approach
Chapter 5 Digging in Digital Archives: Recovering Context for the Getty Museum's Orpheus Mosaic
Chapter 6 Exhibiting Provenance in the University Museum: A Case Study
Chapter 7 Provenance in 2050
Part II Objects in Motion
Chapter 8 Provenance as Palimpsest: The Mazarin Venus
Chapter 9 Archaeology, Fakery, and Lunacy: N. S. Brown's Chinese Neolithic Collection
Chapter 10 The Importance of Provenance in Nineteenth-Century Paris and Beyond: Prince Pierre Soltykoff's Famed Collection of Medieval Art
Chapter 11 The Medieval Bury Chest: Mapping the Journey from Durham Cathedral to the Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Chapter 12 Plunder, Dissolution, and Dodgy Dealing: The International Market for Spanish Art in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 13 Documenting the Violin Trade in Paris, 1930-1945: The Archives of Albert Caressa and Émile Français
Chapter 14 Twice Plundered, and Still Far from Home: Tracing Nazi-Looted Books in Minsk and Moscow
Part III Museums and Collection Formation: Provenancing Art and Nature
Chapter 15 Lost and Found: Re-establishing Provenance for an Entire Museum Collection
Chapter 16 Thomas Pattinson Yeats (1746-1782), Naturalist: Connecting Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, and William Hunter
Chapter 17 A Kato Mosi Kaka and Other Tongan Treasures from the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) in the Smithsonian Institution. Chapter 18 Provenance and Place in Indigenous Australia
Chapter 19 Pursuing Provenance: Perspectives on the Arts of Africa
Chapter 20 One Object, Three Histories: Provenancing the Dromedary
Chapter 21 Forest Gold
Part IV Provenance and Collecting Policies: Practical, Legal, and Ethical Challenges
Chapter 22 A Voyage into the Half-Known: Museum Ethics in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 23 Forgotten Language of the Ledger: Signaling Ownership, Authority, and Provenance with Museum Accession Status
Chapter 24 The Holy Family on an Unholy Odyssey: Legal Ownership of Stolen Trophy Art
Chapter 25 Problems, Practices, and Politics of Provenancing Objects from China's Yuanmingyuan
Chapter 26 Crisis Response and Beyond: The National Gallery of Australia's Asian Art Provenance Project and Other New Initiatives
Chapter 27 Antiquities Trafficking and the Provenance Problem
Chapter 28 Before, During, and After: Documenting Museum Collections in Times of Crisis and Disaster
Index
About the Contributors. - Other Authors/Editors
- Pearce, Nick.
- ISBN
- 9781538127582
- Notes
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Collecting And Provenance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Provenance: Past and Future Challenges -- Chapter 1 The Provenance of Provenances -- Chapter 2 Intellectual Property and Ownership History -- Chapter 3 Provenance Research in Museums: From the Back of the House to the Front -- Chapter 4 Transforming Research Methodologies: The Frick Art Reference Library's Collaborative Approach -- Chapter 5 Digging in Digital Archives: Recovering Context for the Getty Museum's Orpheus Mosaic -- Chapter 6 Exhibiting Provenance in the University Museum: A Case Study -- Chapter 7 Provenance in 2050 -- Part II Objects in Motion -- Chapter 8 Provenance as Palimpsest: The Mazarin Venus -- Chapter 9 Archaeology, Fakery, and Lunacy: N. S. Brown's Chinese Neolithic Collection -- Chapter 10 The Importance of Provenance in Nineteenth-Century Paris and Beyond: Prince Pierre Soltykoff's Famed Collection of Medieval Art -- Chapter 11 The Medieval Bury Chest: Mapping the Journey from Durham Cathedral to the Burrell Collection, Glasgow -- Chapter 12 Plunder, Dissolution, and Dodgy Dealing: The International Market for Spanish Art in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 13 Documenting the Violin Trade in Paris, 1930-1945: The Archives of Albert Caressa and Émile Français -- Chapter 14 Twice Plundered, and Still Far from Home: Tracing Nazi-Looted Books in Minsk and Moscow -- Part III Museums and Collection Formation: Provenancing Art and Nature -- Chapter 15 Lost and Found: Re-establishing Provenance for an Entire Museum Collection -- Chapter 16 Thomas Pattinson Yeats (1746-1782), Naturalist: Connecting Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, and William Hunter -- Chapter 17 A Kato Mosi Kaka and Other Tongan Treasures from the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) in the Smithsonian Institution.
Chapter 18 Provenance and Place in Indigenous Australia -- Chapter 19 Pursuing Provenance: Perspectives on the Arts of Africa -- Chapter 20 One Object, Three Histories: Provenancing the Dromedary -- Chapter 21 Forest Gold -- Part IV Provenance and Collecting Policies: Practical, Legal, and Ethical Challenges -- Chapter 22 A Voyage into the Half-Known: Museum Ethics in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 23 Forgotten Language of the Ledger: Signaling Ownership, Authority, and Provenance with Museum Accession Status -- Chapter 24 The Holy Family on an Unholy Odyssey: Legal Ownership of Stolen Trophy Art -- Chapter 25 Problems, Practices, and Politics of Provenancing Objects from China's Yuanmingyuan -- Chapter 26 Crisis Response and Beyond: The National Gallery of Australia's Asian Art Provenance Project and Other New Initiatives -- Chapter 27 Antiquities Trafficking and the Provenance Problem -- Chapter 28 Before, During, and After: Documenting Museum Collections in Times of Crisis and Disaster -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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