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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... civic ritual. The third chapter discusses the creation of major art museums in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and looks at how, in New York, Chicago, and Boston, the ritual forms of European ...
... civic ritual. The third chapter discusses the creation of major art museums in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and looks at how, in New York, Chicago, and Boston, the ritual forms of European ...
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... civic body by providing it a universal base of knowledge and validating its highest values and most cherished memories. Art museums belong decisively to this realm of secular knowledge, not only because of the scientific and humanistic ...
... civic body by providing it a universal base of knowledge and validating its highest values and most cherished memories. Art museums belong decisively to this realm of secular knowledge, not only because of the scientific and humanistic ...
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... civic realm, classical porticos, rotundas, and other features of Greco-Roman architecture could signal a firm adherence to Enlightenment values. These same monumental forms, however, also brought with them the spaces of public rituals ...
... civic realm, classical porticos, rotundas, and other features of Greco-Roman architecture could signal a firm adherence to Enlightenment values. These same monumental forms, however, also brought with them the spaces of public rituals ...
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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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