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| Title | : | The Devil and Dr. Barnes: Portrait of an American Art Collector |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0940159929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 314 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
Man of many issues Judy Ryan An interesting account of a man with many "issues" and the art he collected, loved, and controlled. Dr. Barnes was indeed haunted by the past and his personal devils, but was also suprisingly generous. The author doesn't necessarily give a balanced account of Barnes' life, as indicated by the title. But his history is so interwoven with art and theory, and people who made both happen, that it is a good reading group selection.. Carol Nagel said Honest and Balanced. I had read this book several years ago, but lent it out and lost track of it. With the current controversy about moving the Barnes collection into Philadelphia, and especially with the movie "The Art of the Steal" circulating nationally, I wanted to reread and relend this excellent book. The value of this book is its thoroughness and its truly balanced portrayal of Barnes' personal and collecting history. Having been to the Barnes Foundation many times since 196Honest and Balanced Carol Nagel I had read this book several years ago, but lent it out and lost track of it. With the current controversy about moving the Barnes collection into Philadelphia, and especially with the movie "The Art of the Steal" circulating nationally, I wanted to reread and relend this excellent book. The value of this book is its thoroughness and its truly balanced portrayal of Barnes' personal and collecting history. Having been to the Barnes Foundation many times since 1964, I am certainly aware of the pe. , I am certainly aware of the pe. Dr Barnes M. E. Johnson I thoroughly enjoyed this book between hilarious episodes of unending laughter and looking at the picture of the author who could stand to compile all of this! This is not a detailed biography of Dr. Barnes but rather a focussed smear of all letters he wrote to people who agitated him. It seems if you left him alone, he was a nice person, but he defended himself and his art views when attacked. How reasonable! There is helpful information to a researcher but the author seriously fails to develo
In this rounded portrait, Albert Barnes emerges as a complex, flawed man, who--blessed with an astute eye for greatness--has left us an incomparable treasure, gathered in one place and unforgettable to all who have seen it.. Analyzing what he saw as the formal relationships underlying all art, linking the old and the new, Barnes applied these principles in a rigorous course of study offered at his Merion foundation. In particular, he championed Matisse, Soutine, and Modigliani when they were obscure or in difficult straits. Ostentatiously turning his back on the art establishment, Barnes challenged the aesthetic sensibilities of an uninitiated, often resistant and scoffing, American audience. Barnes traces the near-mythical journey of a man who was born into poverty, amassed a fortune through the promotion of a popular medicine, and acquired the premier private collection of works by such masters as Renoir,
Author of bios of Caruso and Puccini, Greenfeld offers an entertaining, balanced profile of the self-made nabob whose art collection includes works by Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, Demuth, Glackens, Titian and Rubens. First serial to Philadelphia magazine. From Publishers Weekly Multimillionaire art collector Albert Barnes (1872-1951) wrote obscene letters to his enemies; he lashed art critics and dealers, and he insisted that he got rich through the discovery of a medicated silver solution that he, in fact, had merely promoted. He concludes with a plea to the Barnes Foundation to liberalize its restrictive policies. The irascible chemist-
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