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Saved! : 100 years of the National Art Collections Fund / Richard Verdi ; with contributions by Martin Bailey ... [et al.].
- Title
- Saved! : 100 years of the National Art Collections Fund / Richard Verdi ; with contributions by Martin Bailey ... [et al.].
- Author
- Verdi, Richard
- Publication
- London : Hayward Gallery and the National Art Collections Fund, in association with Scala, 2003.
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- Description
- 312 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- Beautifully illustrated and interwoven with the dramatic and intriguing stories behind the acquisitions, this title includes contributions by some of the leading experts in the field. They unearth the Art Collection Fund's extraordinary and continuing commitment to making great art accessible to everyone.
- Alternative Title
- 100 years of the National Art Collections Fund
- One hundred years of the National Art Collections Fund
- Subject
- National Art-Collections Fund (Great Britain) > Art patronage > Exhibitions
- National Art-Collections Fund (Great Britain) > Exhibitions
- Art > Collectors and collecting > Great Britain > Exhibitions
- Art patronage > Great Britain > Exhibitions
- Art patronage > Great Britain
- Art > Collectors and collecting > Great Britain
- Art museums > Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Hayward Gallery, Oct. 23, 2003-Jan. 18, 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- JPMorgan foreword / Walter Gubert -- Preface / Susan Ferleger Brades, David Barrie -- Introduction : How the National Art Collections Fund works / Brian Allen -- Rebels and connoisseurs / Juliet Gardiner -- The ones that got away / Philip Conisbee -- A century's achievement : celebrating 'the greatest collectors of all' / Richard Verdi -- The future of collecting / Martin Bailey -- Biographies -- Chronology -- Catalogue / Richard Verdi -- Case Studies. Diego Velázquez, The toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus') / Lynda Nead ; Hans Holbein, Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan / Flaminia Gennari Santori ; Auguste Rodin, The burghers of Calais / James Hall ; The Girona treasure / Robert Sténuit ; Xie Chufang, Fascination of nature / Roderick Whitfield ; The free admission campaign / Polly Toynbee.
- ISBN
- 1853322342 (paperback; Hayward Gallery and the National Art Collections Fund edition)
- 1857593049 (hardback; Scala edition)
- OCLC
- 52784229
- SCSB-10217684
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library