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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... European, most of them 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 ...
... European, most of them 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 ...
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... Europe (or rather redefined in terms of new, bourgeois forms of the state). If the various capitals of Europe and, later, America ended up with similarly conceived art museums, it was because, from the start, those nation-states and ...
... Europe (or rather redefined in terms of new, bourgeois forms of the state). If the various capitals of Europe and, later, America ended up with similarly conceived art museums, it was because, from the start, those nation-states and ...
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... European practice of placing objects in settings designed for contemplation emerged as part of a new and, historically speaking, relatively modern way of thinking. In the course of the eighteenth century, critics and philosophers ...
... European practice of placing objects in settings designed for contemplation emerged as part of a new and, historically speaking, relatively modern way of thinking. In the course of the eighteenth century, critics and philosophers ...
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... European writers, for example, Hume, Burke, and Rousseau, also struggled to define taste as a special kind of psychological encounter with distinctive moral and philosophical import.18 The eighteenth century's designation of art and ...
... European writers, for example, Hume, Burke, and Rousseau, also struggled to define taste as a special kind of psychological encounter with distinctive moral and philosophical import.18 The eighteenth century's designation of art and ...
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Índice
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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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