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Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade de Rachel Cohen

Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade

Autor Rachel Cohen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 2013

Observăm în lucrarea semnată de Rachel Cohen o analiză riguroasă a uneia dintre cele mai influente figuri din istoria pieței de artă. Absolventă de Harvard și colaboratoare constantă la publicații precum The New Yorker, Cohen aduce în acest volum din seria Jewish Lives o expertiză consolidată în cartografierea legăturilor culturale, metodă pe care am putut-o vedea și în lucrarea sa anterioară, A Chance Meeting. Autoarea nu se rezumă la o simplă biografie cronologică, ci investighează mecanismele intime ale expertizei de artă și costurile sociale ale asimilării.

Putem afirma că acest volum de la Yale University Press reprezintă prima biografie majoră dedicată lui Bernard Berenson în ultimul sfert de secol. Elementul distinctiv al lucrării este utilizarea unor materiale de arhivă inedite care scot la lumină natura tranzacțională a carierei sale. Deși Berenson a devenit autoritatea supremă pentru milionarii epocii Gilded Age care doreau să achiziționeze maeștri italieni, succesul său a fost clădit pe un parteneriat secret cu dealerul Joseph Duveen, o relație care i-a provocat un conflict interior profund legat de integritatea sa ca interpret de artă.

Cititorii familiarizați cu Duveen de Meryle Secrest vor aprecia modul în care Cohen completează tabloul pieței de artă, oferind însă o perspectivă mai nuanțată asupra identității evreiești și a presiunilor antisemitismului din acea perioadă. Dacă alte lucrări se concentrează pe mecanismul vânzărilor, Bernard Berenson analizează transformarea personală a unui imigrant lituanian care și-a ascuns originile pentru a deveni arbitrul eleganței europene. Ritmul narațiunii este susținut de prezența unor figuri marcante precum Edith Wharton sau Belle da Costa Greene, oferind o perspectivă asupra rețelelor sociale care au instituționalizat înțelegerea americană asupra artei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300149425
ISBN-10: 0300149425
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 23 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 146 x 210 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această biografie este esențială pentru cei interesați de istoria artei și de mecanismele pieței de antichități. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care expertiza vizuală a fost transformată în capital financiar și cultural. Este o recomandare certă pentru studenții la istoria artei și pentru colecționari, oferind o privire onestă asupra modului în care canonul artistic a fost modelat de interese comerciale și ambiții personale.

Despre autor

Rachel Cohen este o eseistă și profesoară de renume, educată la Harvard, a cărei activitate a fost recunoscută prin burse de la MacDowell Colony și New York Foundation for the Arts. În prezent predă la Sarah Lawrence College. Opera sa este marcată de un interes constant pentru intersecțiile dintre viețile creatorilor și contextul lor istoric, debutul său, A Chance Meeting, fiind distins cu premiul PEN/Jerard Fund. În Bernard Berenson, Cohen își folosește abilitatea de a sintetiza cercetarea de arhivă cu analiza culturală, oferind o perspectivă empatică dar critică asupra identității intelectuale.

Descriere scurtă

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an illuminating new biography of the connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with his vast erudition, incredible eye, and uncanny skill at attributing paintings. They visited Berenson at his beautiful Villa I Tatti, in the hills outside Florence, and walked with him through the immense private library—which he would eventually bequeath to Harvard—without ever suspecting that he had grown up in a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family that had struggled to survive in Boston on the wages of the father’s work as a tin peddler. Berenson’s extraordinary self-transformation, financed by the explosion of the Gilded Age art market and his secret partnership with the great art dealer Joseph Duveen, came with painful costs: he hid his origins and felt that he had betrayed his gifts as an interpreter of paintings. Nevertheless his way of seeing, presented in his books, codified in his attributions, and institutionalized in the many important American collections he helped to build, goes on shaping the American understanding of art today.

This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the way his family and companions—including his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, his lover Belle da Costa Greene, and his dear friend Edith Wharton—helped to form his ideas and his legacy. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson’s inner world and exceptional visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces—new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars—that profoundly affected his life.

About Jewish Lives: 

Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.

In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.

More praise for Jewish Lives:

"Excellent" –New York Times

"Exemplary" –Wall Street Journal

"Distinguished" –New Yorker

"Superb" –The Guardian

Notă biografică

Rachel Cohen is the author of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Believer, Best American Essays, and many other publications. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She keeps a notebook on looking at paintings at http://rachelecohen.com.

Recenzii

"A highly sympathetic and graceful portrait of Bernard Berenson, the art connoisseur and dealer who remade himself into a work of art, priced and priceless, which he protected, cultivated, and even at times bartered: Rachel Cohen's Bernard Berenson is an illuminating tale of this self-transformation, its successes and pitfalls, told with stalwart compassion."--Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877

"An insightful, richly detailed account of Bernard Berenson’s brilliant transformation from an immigrant Jew and son of a tin peddler into a connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting and a dealer in secret partnership with Joseph Duveen. With the keen gaze that Berenson brought to a picture, Rachel Cohen analyzes his high-wire act of self-invention against the glittering, aristocratic, anti-Semitic world of art collecting."--Cynthia Saltzman

"Cohen draws a psychological portrait of a man guided by passionate aesthetic ideals and tortured by the compromises in the world of commerce that he felt compelled to make. . . . If you live in an American city, there's a good chance that you can go to a museum today and see an exquisite Sienese Madonna, or a Venetian Holy Family, or a Florentine portrait. You have Berenson—and his collector-acolytes—to thank."—Hugh Eakin, Wall Street Journal

"The most dynamic biography yet of the groundbreaking art historian Bernard Berenson...Cohen investigates Berenson’s contradictions, metamorphoses, and dramatically unconventional life with vivacious authority. . . . Cohen deftly channels the sweeping intensity of Berenson’s aesthetic ecstasy, hard-won expertise, surprising adventures, and vital legacy.”—Booklist, Starred Review

"In her remarkable biography, Cohen approaches Berenson's life as a panorama full of artifice and profundity, whose brilliant flashes of color are inextricable from its substrates of shadow. The book leaves an indelible impression, not merely in the way it catalogues Berenson's accomplishments and failings, but also in its dissection of the struggle between desire and alienation that characterizes American art—and life—to this day."—Thomas Micchelli, Bookforum

Book of the Week
“[As] Rachel Cohen, the author of this elegantly written biography. . . .nicely puts it, Berenson was ‘a person whose capacity for metamorphosis approached that of a moth.’”—Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph

“Rachel Cohen’s unobtrusively and thoroughly well written short volume skilfully negotiates the contradictory sides of Berenson’s character – the aesthete and the huckster; the man who lived only for art and the man who very much liked to surround himself with the appurtenances of wealth.”—Sam Leith, The Spectator

“Rachel Cohen has written an admirable short life...[and] a touching portrait”—James Stourton, Literary Review

"Berenson's extraordinary and colorful life—from his humble birth in Lithuania, to Harvard and thence to his august and influential position as a critic and art historian, to the renowned splendor of his Florentine villa I Tatti—makes a rich and compelling subject. Ms. Cohen's remarkable book affords the occasion also for rumination upon self-invention and authenticity, upon the making of the man, and of taste, too."—Claire Messud, Wall Street Journal

“Rachel Cohen who has written an extremely thoughtful and readable biography of Berenson”—Charles Saumarez-Smith, Apollo Magazine
Chosen as a highly recommended book by the Boston Authors Club in 2014.

"An absorbing new biography."—Jewish Daily Forward
‘This book proves to be a remarkably balanced treatment of a profoundly complicated and compelling life.’—Robert Simon, Burlington Magazine

"An irresistibly readable and accessible account of this complicated character, who could be by turns brilliant and petty, generous toward others and scornful of himself, an inveterate philanderer and a staunch husband."—Ann Landl, ARTnews

Shortlisted for the 2015 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2014