In 1909, the grand couturier Jacques Doucet opened a library dedicated to art history and archaeology. Soon this library, although the result of a private initiative, gained a reputation for scholarly depth and utility, reflected in its reader’s register. The nearly 1,500 individual registration cards that survive from its early years provide documentation of the public that patronized the first art history library in France. Geolocation of the individual readers provides information on their socio-cultural backgrounds, while network analysis reveals personal and institutional relationships between the library and other institutions such as museums, libraries and universities. A more precise focus on selected readers helps to establish a pr...
“Few things in the history of humanity are as well known to us as the history of Paris. Tens of thou...
In an age of the Kindle and e-books, how refreshing and meaningful to read Willa Z. Silverman’s fasc...
This is the final version. Freely available from the publisher via the link in this recor
In 1909, the grand couturier Jacques Doucet opened a library dedicated to art history and archaeolog...
International audienceIn 1909, the grand couturier Jacques Doucet opened a library dedicated to art ...
International audienceFounded by couturier and art collector Jacques Doucet, the first Parisian libr...
How libraries have shaped the writing and reception of art history and criticism was explored in two...
The fourth volume of the “Passage des disciplines” collection looks at how the discipline of art his...
Soon after art history was established as an academic discipline in its own right in the later ninet...
https://www.persee.fr/renderCollectionCover/hista.pngFounded in 1988, Histoire de l'art publishes th...
International audienceThe creation of the Artist Libraries Project was sparked by the observation th...
This work is a historiography dissertation that focuses on research issues in studies on the librari...
Museums and Collections : A History of the Patrimoniality This article examines the role the study ...
The Chinese collection of the Jacques Doucet art and archeology library at the library of the French...
All great national libraries have their manuscript department – a veritable researcher’s treasure tr...
“Few things in the history of humanity are as well known to us as the history of Paris. Tens of thou...
In an age of the Kindle and e-books, how refreshing and meaningful to read Willa Z. Silverman’s fasc...
This is the final version. Freely available from the publisher via the link in this recor
In 1909, the grand couturier Jacques Doucet opened a library dedicated to art history and archaeolog...
International audienceIn 1909, the grand couturier Jacques Doucet opened a library dedicated to art ...
International audienceFounded by couturier and art collector Jacques Doucet, the first Parisian libr...
How libraries have shaped the writing and reception of art history and criticism was explored in two...
The fourth volume of the “Passage des disciplines” collection looks at how the discipline of art his...
Soon after art history was established as an academic discipline in its own right in the later ninet...
https://www.persee.fr/renderCollectionCover/hista.pngFounded in 1988, Histoire de l'art publishes th...
International audienceThe creation of the Artist Libraries Project was sparked by the observation th...
This work is a historiography dissertation that focuses on research issues in studies on the librari...
Museums and Collections : A History of the Patrimoniality This article examines the role the study ...
The Chinese collection of the Jacques Doucet art and archeology library at the library of the French...
All great national libraries have their manuscript department – a veritable researcher’s treasure tr...
“Few things in the history of humanity are as well known to us as the history of Paris. Tens of thou...
In an age of the Kindle and e-books, how refreshing and meaningful to read Willa Z. Silverman’s fasc...
This is the final version. Freely available from the publisher via the link in this recor