Word: connoisseurship
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...virtue was quite like J. Pierpont Morgan's. He collected nearly every imaginable kind of art object, from panel paintings to antique cameos, from medallions to tapestries, and even a unicorn's horn given to him by the Pope. The result was a triumph of manic connoisseurship-the greatest private collection in Europe...
...perception. The Whitney, by inviting its guest curator Norman Feder (who is in charge of the Indian collection at the Denver Art Museum) to assemble some 300 works and present them as art. has done an exemplary public service. The items in the show have been chosen with meticulous connoisseurship. Their installation, by Designer George Hoehne, is a model of clarity and visual tact...
Aggressive Imbecility. The American Civil War provides only slightly less rewarding material for Fair's connoisseurship. His favorite humbler seems to be one of the Union's least renowned commanders, General Ambrose Burnside. As Fair tells it, Burnside was so bad that he won at least one small victory-at New Bern, N.C., in 1862-simply because the Confederates were taken by surprise by his aggressive imbecility in storming well-protected defenses. On other occasions he was less lucky. At the battle of Antietam, for example, he spent hours trying to take a bridge to cross a shallow...
Daniels certainly had a varied and outstanding collection. The exhibit testifies to his excellence of connoisseurship and offers a great deal to the students of any or all of the individual artists. The problems it faces are unfortunately intrinsic to the variety in a private collection and the delicacy of exhibiting drawings...
...addition to the intensely personal expressions of Weltschmerz and separation that are still much favored by young poets. But unlike much of the so-called academic poetry, these poems rarely intimidate with pretentiousness or with allusions to obscure mythologies. Missing, too, is the musty odor of coterie and connoisseurship...