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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... art museum and its practices." Linda Nochlin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University "Carol Duncan is a thinker ... history but as a powerful agent that has helped to shape that history through architectural symbolism, spatial ...
... art museum and its practices." Linda Nochlin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University "Carol Duncan is a thinker ... history but as a powerful agent that has helped to shape that history through architectural symbolism, spatial ...
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Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. RE VISIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ART Series editors: Jon Bird and Lisa Tickner, Middlesex University Art history has been transformed as an academic discipline over the ...
Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. RE VISIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ART Series editors: Jon Bird and Lisa Tickner, Middlesex University Art history has been transformed as an academic discipline over the ...
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Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. PREFACE. and. acknowledgments. The origins of this book go back many years. In 1976, my interest in art museums took a quantum leap forward when I joined a group of New York artists and art writers ...
Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. PREFACE. and. acknowledgments. The origins of this book go back many years. In 1976, my interest in art museums took a quantum leap forward when I joined a group of New York artists and art writers ...
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... art museums appear as environments structured around specific ritual scenarios - various examples of which different ... historical and museological writings about the nature and mission of art museums. Using specific examples, some ...
... art museums appear as environments structured around specific ritual scenarios - various examples of which different ... historical and museological writings about the nature and mission of art museums. Using specific examples, some ...
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... history of art museums, the absence of Italy and Germany, both of which set important museological precedents for the rest of Europe and America, would not be admissible. My purpose, however, has not been to write a history of art ...
... history of art museums, the absence of Italy and Germany, both of which set important museological precedents for the rest of Europe and America, would not be admissible. My purpose, however, has not been to write a history of art ...
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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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