Curiosity(ies). A certain taste for elsewhere. Museums of Angers.
| N° d'inventaire | 19253 |
| Format | 25 x 30 |
| Détails | 388 p., color illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Antwerp, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
"He traveled. He experienced the melancholy of ocean liners, the cold awakenings in tents, the dizziness of landscapes and ruins, the bitterness of interrupted sympathies. He returned." Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education. Curious about the wide world as much as they loved Anjou, some great 19th-century Angevin collectors shaped the collections of the Angers museums through their audacity and taste. The exhibition Curiosité(s), through this catalog, pays tribute to them and sheds precious light on the representation of the world. The travels of these men to Italy, Greece, Egypt, and the antipodes reflect a fascination for the Elsewhere that was very characteristic of their century. Artists, antique dealers, and archaeologists, they loved and collected objects of a beauty and uniqueness that form an extraordinary invitation to travel.
"He traveled. He experienced the melancholy of ocean liners, the cold awakenings in tents, the dizziness of landscapes and ruins, the bitterness of interrupted sympathies. He returned." Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education. Curious about the wide world as much as they loved Anjou, some great 19th-century Angevin collectors shaped the collections of the Angers museums through their audacity and taste. The exhibition Curiosité(s), through this catalog, pays tribute to them and sheds precious light on the representation of the world. The travels of these men to Italy, Greece, Egypt, and the antipodes reflect a fascination for the Elsewhere that was very characteristic of their century. Artists, antique dealers, and archaeologists, they loved and collected objects of a beauty and uniqueness that form an extraordinary invitation to travel.