Antiques Sep/Oct 11 —
I have never been happy with American isolationism in art, antiques, or politics. This issue, a mix that joins sophisticated European and American tastes, strikes me as healthy for both sides of the Atlantic. Of course it is no simple matter to find writers like our regular contributors James Gardner and Barrymore Scherer who are as much at home with Old Masters as with American regionalists or outsider art. Laura Beach, who delivers sparkling reports in this issue on London’s Masterpiece fair and on a fine collection of decorative arts and paintings in New Jersey, is another such rarity.
October 2011 170 Pages
The Japanesque Silver Of The Whiting Manufacturing The Newness Of art Nouveau Sculpture In Praise Of Ornament The Comeback Touch Wood The Breath Of life French In Style, American At Heart The first Transformers Living With Antiques Editorial Events
Elizabeth Pochoda
Edward Emerson
Our Take —
The Magazine Antiques has been around almost as long as some of the beautiful works if profiles. Authoritative yet breezy, it’s entirely clear how this periodical has remained one of the most successful antiques-specialist titles in the world. With an impressive circulation in its home territory of the USA, although the content remains primarily focused on the American antiques scene - the original reason for its existence all those decades ago- its outlook is international, as befits any title devoted to the field. American antique collectors, so the media clichés tell us, are very fond of the cultural output of much older art and design cultures in addition to homegrown traditions. Furthermore, as a forward-looking title that understands the shifts in trends and collection markets, Antiques is one of the few titles that has devoted editorial to new emerging markets and trends in addition to the more traditional Eurocentric circuits and their established tendencies towards Orientalism.
Picking up on trends –such as a fresh appetite for African antiques in a new multicultural generation or emerging East-to-East markets- Antiques remains an informative and accessible resource for a diverse readership; for love or money.
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