Filantropía o especulación. Las motivaciones del coleccionista de arte (de mediados del siglo XIX a finales del XX)
ISSN: 1134-0576
Year of publication: 2018
Issue Title: Museos y coleccionistas contemporáneos
Issue: 72
Pages: 10-29
Type: Article
More publications in: RdM. Revista de Museología: Publicación científica al servicio de la comunidad museológica
Abstract
Taking as a temporary framework the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, this article analyzes the figure of the art collector, based on the different motivations that drive it to collect. For this, we have examined a wide range of particular cases, in order to identify common features that allow us to group them according to these motivations. Task in truth complex, because these usually appear closely linked to each other, or coexisting even in the same individual. The purpose of the classification or categorization offered here is to advance the study of a character, so intense and at the same time so contradictory, as is the art collector.