Description: "The House of Barnes: The Man, The Collection, The Controversy is a beautifully written study of the extraordinary art collector and volatile personality Albert C. Barnes. The book places him in the context of his own era, shedding new light on the ideas and movements (about art collecting, education, and aesthetics) that shaped so much of his thinking"--
Review Quotes: "[D]eserve[s] to be read...because the slippage of identity between the man, the art, and the institution provides both the melodrama and the farce of the tale."--Susan Tallman "The Atlantic"