Gail Feigenbaum is a former associate director of the Getty Research Institute. Inge Reist is chief of research collections and programs and director of the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick Collection, New York.
"[This book] calls to move beyond the notion of provenance research
as 'a quiet, essentially antiquarian pursuit' and to take a more
interpretative approach."--Art Newspaper, February 2014
"The book has no shortage of riveting stories, like Anne Boleyn
throwing a Hans Holbein the Younger painting, commissioned by King
Henry VIII, out the window. . . . Of definite interest to art
history departments, this collection is also applicable to
museology and library science, particularly to the study of rare
books."--Art Libraries Society of North America
"The focus is on the 'transformative power of ownership' the
relationships between owners and the changes in the perception and
reception of works due to their previous owners. . . . Taken as a
whole, these essays can be thought of as the start of the
conversation, and an invocation to art historians who have
abandoned the study of the 'social life' of art."--Choice
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