Deaccessioning and its discontents : a critical history /
Gammon, Martin,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: The British experiment -- In the beginning -- Approaching the twentieth century -- Part 2: the American experience -- A surfeit of surplus art: the early American experience -- The Leutze affair: America's first deaccession controversy -- The evolution of donor intent: the Wilstach Collection and the origins of the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Origination of the word: Kashmir and the Hoving affair at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Deaccession denial: the chorus of moral umbrage -- Anatomy of a deaccession: the Thomas Jefferson Bryan Collection and the New-York Historical Society.
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