The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0870993704

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A catalogue of 373 masterpieces from the Linsky's collection of European paintings, medieval and Renaissance objets d'art, sculpture, jewelry, furniture, carpets, clocks, gilt bronzes, and porcelains. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Paris Between Empires
Paris Between Empires

Author: Philip Mansel

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-04-05

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0312308574

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In this social history of Europe's most famous city during its golden age, Mansel tells the story of the political turbulence, dynamic intrigue, violence in the streets, and the societal wars that took place in upper-class salons. 32 page photo insert.

Taste and Power
Taste and Power

Author: Leora Auslander

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0520920945

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Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz
Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz

Author: Steven B. Bunker

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0826344542

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"This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City, overturning conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture"--Provided by publisher.