Title: Antiques
First published: 2008
Description: "In Antiques: The History of an Idea, Leon Rosenstein, a distinguished philosopher who has also been an antiques dealer for more than twenty years, offers a sweeping and lively account of the origin and development of the antique as both a cultural concept and an aesthetic category. He shows that the appeal of antiques is multifaceted: it concerns their value as commodities, their age and historical and cultural associations, their uniqueness, their sensuous and tactile values, their beauty."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, Aesthetics, Collectors and collecting, Philosophy, Antiques business, Antiques, Antique dealers
LC classification: NK600 .R67 2008