Tuesday, March 24, 2015
![Cover of Joan Coutu's new book "Then and Now"](/fine-arts/sites/default/files/uploads/images/then_and_now_book_cover_0.jpg)
"In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals. By charting this changing preference within a broader study of material culture, Joan Coutu examines the evolving articulation of the English gentleman."