Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art MuseumsRoutledge, 20/06/2005 - 192 páginas Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants. Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for students of art history and museum studies, and professionals in the field will also find much of interest here. |
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... American University, Washington DC "A lively and authoritative discussion of some key issues facing museums past and present. Duncan's analysis of the role of gender, the tensions between public and private mission, and the vanities of ...
... American University, Washington DC "A lively and authoritative discussion of some key issues facing museums past and present. Duncan's analysis of the role of gender, the tensions between public and private mission, and the vanities of ...
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... American art held at the Whitney Museum, an anti-catalog grew into a critical look at art museums and art exhibitions in general. For the eighteen people who wrote, designed, and produced it,* an anti-catalog was also an intensive ...
... American art held at the Whitney Museum, an anti-catalog grew into a critical look at art museums and art exhibitions in general. For the eighteen people who wrote, designed, and produced it,* an anti-catalog was also an intensive ...
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... American Council of Learned Societies, which I also gratefully acknowledge. The ACLS grant gave me the kind of unbroken writing time I needed to complete the text. Above all, I wish to express my gratitude to Andrew Hemingway, who, over ...
... American Council of Learned Societies, which I also gratefully acknowledge. The ACLS grant gave me the kind of unbroken writing time I needed to complete the text. Above all, I wish to express my gratitude to Andrew Hemingway, who, over ...
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... the United States, where art galleries and museums of art are the same kind of thing. In this book. I am following American usage and will use the terms art gallery, art museum, or even just plain museum interchangeably. 1 INTRODUCTION.
... the United States, where art galleries and museums of art are the same kind of thing. In this book. I am following American usage and will use the terms art gallery, art museum, or even just plain museum interchangeably. 1 INTRODUCTION.
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... American, the remaining four chapters explore some of the most common ritual scenarios that museums construct. These have been chosen either for their importance in museum history or because they exemplify a common type of museum. As ...
... American, the remaining four chapters explore some of the most common ritual scenarios that museums construct. These have been chosen either for their importance in museum history or because they exemplify a common type of museum. As ...
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FROM THE PRINCELY GALLERY TO THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM The Louvre Museum and the National Gallery London | 21 |
PUBLIC SPACES PRIVATE INTERESTS Municipal art museums in New York and Chicago | 48 |
SOMETHING ETERNAL The donor memorial | 72 |
THE MODERN ART MUSEUM Its a mans world | 102 |
CONCLUSION | 133 |
NOTES | 135 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 162 |
INDEX | 174 |
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