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Chargement... The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of Francepar James McAuley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction This is such an interesting history. The author focuses on a few French Jewish families and their history. McAuley shows how the the families believed that they were truly French. Their collections and houses were meant to show an allegiance to French values in the 19th and early twentieth centuries. However, the French establishment of writers and critics always considered the families as " foreign" no matter what they did. The houses described by the author as part of this history were all donated to the French nation as museums-Musee Camondo and Villa Kerylos. Many members of these families were sent to Auschwitz and were murdered there. The author also talks about the role of women and how some of them rebelled against the life that they're expected to lead as part of a dynastic joining of two family fortunes. The families discussed were the Camondos, the Reinachs and the Rothschilds. I liked the approach of the author on this subject. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews--pillars of an embattled community--invested their fortunes in France's cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country's army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt--the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers--McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of "invading" France's cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind--many ultimately donated to the French state--were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)704.03924044The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts Special topics in fine and decorative arts History and description with regard to ethnic and national groupsClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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