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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... MUSEUM: THE LOUVRE MUSEUM AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON 21 3 PUBLIC SPACES, PRIVATE INTERESTS: MUNICIPAL ART MUSEUMS IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO 48 4 SOMETHING ETERNAL: THE DONOR MEMORIAL 72 5 THE MODERN ART MUSEUM: IT'S A MAN'S WORLD ...
... MUSEUM: THE LOUVRE MUSEUM AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON 21 3 PUBLIC SPACES, PRIVATE INTERESTS: MUNICIPAL ART MUSEUMS IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO 48 4 SOMETHING ETERNAL: THE DONOR MEMORIAL 72 5 THE MODERN ART MUSEUM: IT'S A MAN'S WORLD ...
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... Louvre Museum, Paris, entrance to the Apollo Gallery 23 2.2 The old Louvre Palace, a former royal apartment, converted to museum use in the nineteenth century 28 2.3 Creating a genius ceiling in the central dome of the Louvre's Daru ...
... Louvre Museum, Paris, entrance to the Apollo Gallery 23 2.2 The old Louvre Palace, a former royal apartment, converted to museum use in the nineteenth century 28 2.3 Creating a genius ceiling in the central dome of the Louvre's Daru ...
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... museums. Together with Alan Wallach, I wrote two articles - one on the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and another on the Louvre Museum - arguing the idea of the museum as a ritual structure. Several years later, when I began work on ...
... museums. Together with Alan Wallach, I wrote two articles - one on the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and another on the Louvre Museum - arguing the idea of the museum as a ritual structure. Several years later, when I began work on ...
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... museum-going as something akin to older ritual situations, although there are formal parallels to which I shall ... Louvre Museum in Paris and the National Gallery in London and is concerned mainly with the transformation of the European ...
... museum-going as something akin to older ritual situations, although there are formal parallels to which I shall ... Louvre Museum in Paris and the National Gallery in London and is concerned mainly with the transformation of the European ...
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... museum itself: Do you not think that in a splendid gallery ... all the adjacent and circumjacent parts of that ... Louvre curator Germain Bazin, for example, wrote that an art museum is "a temple where Time seems suspended"; the visitor ...
... museum itself: Do you not think that in a splendid gallery ... all the adjacent and circumjacent parts of that ... Louvre curator Germain Bazin, for example, wrote that an art museum is "a temple where Time seems suspended"; the visitor ...
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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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