The new Medici: The rise of corporate collecting and uses of contemporary art, 1925-1970

This study explores the reasons why corporations which supported and collected contemporary art in the twentieth century chose abstract expressionism as the appropriate visual expression of their achievements during the 1950s and 60s. Corporate use of contemporary art began during the mid-1920s as t...

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Main Author: Barter, Judith A
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1991
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9207362