Hearst the Collector (Museum Edition)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Levkoff, Mary L.

ISBN 10: 0810982439 / ISBN 13: 9780810982437

Published by Abrams, 2008

About this Item

Book & dust jacket show shelf & handling wear, including edge wear. Dust jacket is in a plastic protector. Pages are somewhat worn & yellowing, interiors are intact with unmarked text/pictures. A good reading copy!

Seller Inventory # mon0003945158

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hearst the Collector (Museum Edition)
• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810982439
• ISBN 13: 9780810982437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Color, B/w Illustrations
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.

About this title

Synopsis

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was one of the most famous men in America in the first half of the 20th century. His life as a newspaper magnate and politician was satirized in Orson Welles€™s Citizen Kane, and his home in San Simeon, California, is still one of the most visited house museums in the country.  Hearst the Collector explores another facet of his extraordinary life and notoriety: his phenomenal art collection. During the 1920s and 1930s, he amassed the largest private collections of tapestries, antiquities, silver, and arms and armor of his time. His collection

About the Author

Mary Levkoff is a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.