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Product Identifiers
PublisherHatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co KG
ISBN-103775737901
ISBN-139783775737906
eBay Product ID (ePID)201610019
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameElective Affinity : the Esther Grether Collection
Publication Year2014
SubjectCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, General, European
TypeTextbook
AuthorKerstin Stremmel
Subject AreaArt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight126.7 Oz
Item Length13.7 in
Item Width9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal708.9494
SynopsisThe private collection of Swiss-based entrepreneur Esther Grether is famous for its quality and scope. In this first publication on the collection, photographs of the works show how the rooms are subordinated to art and testify to its independence from the values of the art market., The private collection of Swiss-based entrepreneur Esther Grether is famous throughout the world for its quality and scope. Due to the intimate affinity of the works themselves, the collection, like almost no other, impressively represents a life lived in devotion to the masterpieces. The title of this first extensive publication on the collection echoes this dual distinction: an elective affinity is what connects Grether to her works, and the works themselves are linked to each other in indirect and multiple ways. The personal emphases of the collection reflect precise, central aspects of twentieth-century art history. Photographs of the collection show how the rooms are subordinated to art and testify to its independence from the categories and values of an art market focused on representationalism. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3709-8)
LC Classification NumberN5279.2.G7
Text byStremmel, Kerstin
