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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... identities. Art museums emerge as sites in which political power and social interests and the history of cultural forms visibly intersect. Carol Duncan teaches art history at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her essays have been collected ...
... identities. Art museums emerge as sites in which political power and social interests and the history of cultural forms visibly intersect. Carol Duncan teaches art history at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her essays have been collected ...
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... identity - in the form of vivid and direct experience. If, in the chapters that follow, I insist on the existence of museum rituals, it is because I believe that a museum's central meanings, its meanings as a museum, are structured ...
... identity - in the form of vivid and direct experience. If, in the chapters that follow, I insist on the existence of museum rituals, it is because I believe that a museum's central meanings, its meanings as a museum, are structured ...
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... identities and as minority cultures in the West seek cultural recognition. However pressing these issues, the question I am asking here is, although parallel, a different one: what fundamental purposes do western museums serve in the ...
... identities and as minority cultures in the West seek cultural recognition. However pressing these issues, the question I am asking here is, although parallel, a different one: what fundamental purposes do western museums serve in the ...
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... and excluded.9 Their conclusions support the notion of the art museum as a setting for ritual. However, the performance they identify is understood almost wholly as an exercise in class identity. Despite my admiration INTRODUCTION.
... and excluded.9 Their conclusions support the notion of the art museum as a setting for ritual. However, the performance they identify is understood almost wholly as an exercise in class identity. Despite my admiration INTRODUCTION.
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Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. wholly as an exercise in class identity. Despite my admiration for Bourdieu's work, my concept of what happens in art museums does not coincide with his - at least not entirely. Without rejecting ...
Inside Public Art Museums Carol Duncan. wholly as an exercise in class identity. Despite my admiration for Bourdieu's work, my concept of what happens in art museums does not coincide with his - at least not entirely. Without rejecting ...
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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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