In Pursuit of History

《历史的追寻》

Hardcover: 304页

出版社: Philadelphia Museum Distribution (2020年1月28日)

语种： English

ISBN-10: 0876332939

ISBN-13: 978-0876332931

产品尺寸及重量: 246 x 293 x 33mm | 1,956g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准 

内容简介

A tribute to a major collection and its founder, this beautiful book illuminates life in colonial America

This book showcases highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation, established in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr. and focused on 18th-century American fine and decorative arts. Essays explore the formation of the collection and its many areas of strength, enhancing current understandings of colonial history and material culture. The volume’s coeditor, H. Richard Dietrich III, unfolds an American story of a family’s entrepreneurship and speaks to his father’s varied yet interconnected collecting interests, as well as the common threads that unified them. An array of specialists explore the scope and uncommon richness of the foundation’s holdings, of which books and manuscripts account for half. Chinese export wares, furniture, silver, fraktur, and other decorative arts, and paintings of historical importance speak in varied ways to the nature of colonial identity, while objects related to the whaling trade signal the new nation’s maritime focus. With striking new photography and insightful scholarship, In Pursuit of History brings to life both the collector and the time period that he loved.

About the Author

H. Richard Dietrich III is president, and Deborah M. Rebuck is curator, both of the Dietrich American Foundation.