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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... eighteenth-century dining room from Lansdowne House, London, as installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York 39 2.7 National Gallery, London, the Barry Rooms 46 3.1 Proposed Staircase and Dome for the Art Institute of Chicago ...
... eighteenth-century dining room from Lansdowne House, London, as installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York 39 2.7 National Gallery, London, the Barry Rooms 46 3.1 Proposed Staircase and Dome for the Art Institute of Chicago ...
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... years, has given me invaluable help, constant encouragement, and, most importantly, thoughtful and incisive criticism. New York City June, 1994 INTRODUCTION Since their appearance in the late eighteenth century, art. PREFACE.
... years, has given me invaluable help, constant encouragement, and, most importantly, thoughtful and incisive criticism. New York City June, 1994 INTRODUCTION Since their appearance in the late eighteenth century, art. PREFACE.
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Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. INTRODUCTION. Since their appearance in the late eighteenth century, art museums* have become steadily richer, more numerous, and, lately, more glamorous, as sites of cultural activity. The Museum ...
Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. INTRODUCTION. Since their appearance in the late eighteenth century, art museums* have become steadily richer, more numerous, and, lately, more glamorous, as sites of cultural activity. The Museum ...
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... eighteenth through the mid- twentieth centuries, they were deliberately designed to resemble them. One might object that this borrowing from the architectural past can have only metaphoric meaning and should not be taken for more, since ...
... eighteenth through the mid- twentieth centuries, they were deliberately designed to resemble them. One might object that this borrowing from the architectural past can have only metaphoric meaning and should not be taken for more, since ...
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... as part of a new and, historically speaking, relatively modern way of thinking. In the course of the eighteenth century, critics and philosophers, increasingly interested in visual experience, 13 I THE ART MUSEUM AS RITUAL.
... as part of a new and, historically speaking, relatively modern way of thinking. In the course of the eighteenth century, critics and philosophers, increasingly interested in visual experience, 13 I THE ART MUSEUM AS RITUAL.
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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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