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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... Enlightenment culture, one in which the secular and the religious are opposing categories. It is certainly the case that our culture classifies religious buildings such as churches, temples, and mosques as different in kind from secular ...
... Enlightenment culture, one in which the secular and the religious are opposing categories. It is certainly the case that our culture classifies religious buildings such as churches, temples, and mosques as different in kind from secular ...
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... Enlightenment assumptions about the sharp separation between religious and secular experience - that the one is rooted in belief while the other is based in lucid and objective rationality - we may begin to glimpse the hidden - perhaps ...
... Enlightenment assumptions about the sharp separation between religious and secular experience - that the one is rooted in belief while the other is based in lucid and objective rationality - we may begin to glimpse the hidden - perhaps ...
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... Enlightenment values. These same monumental forms, however, also brought with them the spaces of public rituals - corridors scaled for processions, halls implying large, communal gatherings, and interior sanctuaries designed for awesome ...
... Enlightenment values. These same monumental forms, however, also brought with them the spaces of public rituals - corridors scaled for processions, halls implying large, communal gatherings, and interior sanctuaries designed for awesome ...
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... enlightenment. The beneficial outcome that museum rituals are supposed to produce can sound very like claims made for traditional, religious rituals. According to their advocates, museum visitors come away with a sense of enlightenment ...
... enlightenment. The beneficial outcome that museum rituals are supposed to produce can sound very like claims made for traditional, religious rituals. According to their advocates, museum visitors come away with a sense of enlightenment ...
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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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