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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... example, normally treat only the contents of a collection. The "collection" is not conceptualized as a place but rather as an accumulation of valuable and unique objects. Books about famous collectors do something similar, usually ...
... example, normally treat only the contents of a collection. The "collection" is not conceptualized as a place but rather as an accumulation of valuable and unique objects. Books about famous collectors do something similar, usually ...
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... example (or group of examples) is situated within its relevant historical context. Chapter 2 treats the Louvre Museum in Paris and the National Gallery in London and is concerned mainly with the transformation of the European princely ...
... example (or group of examples) is situated within its relevant historical context. Chapter 2 treats the Louvre Museum in Paris and the National Gallery in London and is concerned mainly with the transformation of the European princely ...
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... examples, the majority being American. Without doubt, different boundaries could have been drawn, both geographically and conceptually. Were this a history of art museums, the absence of Italy and Germany, both of which set important ...
... examples, the majority being American. Without doubt, different boundaries could have been drawn, both geographically and conceptually. Were this a history of art museums, the absence of Italy and Germany, both of which set important ...
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... examples of such microcosms; art museums in particular - the most prestigious and costly of these sites3 - are especially rich in this kind of symbolism and, almost always, even equip visitors with maps to guide them through the ...
... examples of such microcosms; art museums in particular - the most prestigious and costly of these sites3 - are especially rich in this kind of symbolism and, almost always, even equip visitors with maps to guide them through the ...
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... example, wrote that an art museum is "a temple where Time seems suspended"; the visitor enters it in the hope of finding one of "those momentary cultural epiphanies" that give him "the illusion of knowing intuitively his essence and his ...
... example, wrote that an art museum is "a temple where Time seems suspended"; the visitor enters it in the hope of finding one of "those momentary cultural epiphanies" that give him "the illusion of knowing intuitively his essence and his ...
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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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