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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... installation choices and their ritualistic associations . . . she leads her readers to question, constructively, their previously unexamined cultural assumptions and values." Norma Broude, The American University, Washington DC "A ...
... installation choices and their ritualistic associations . . . she leads her readers to question, constructively, their previously unexamined cultural assumptions and values." Norma Broude, The American University, Washington DC "A ...
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... installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York 39 2.7 National Gallery, London, the Barry Rooms 46 3.1 ... installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 66 3.9 Bedroom from the Palazzo Secredo, Venice, c. 1718, as installed in the ...
... installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York 39 2.7 National Gallery, London, the Barry Rooms 46 3.1 ... installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 66 3.9 Bedroom from the Palazzo Secredo, Venice, c. 1718, as installed in the ...
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... installed in the Museum of Modern Art in 1988 18 5.9 De Kooning, Woman I, 1952 19 5.10 Gorgon, clay relief, sixth century BC 120 5.1 1 Etruscan Gorgon (drawing after a sixth-century BC bronze carriage-front) 121 5.12 Robert Heinecken ...
... installed in the Museum of Modern Art in 1988 18 5.9 De Kooning, Woman I, 1952 19 5.10 Gorgon, clay relief, sixth century BC 120 5.1 1 Etruscan Gorgon (drawing after a sixth-century BC bronze carriage-front) 121 5.12 Robert Heinecken ...
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... installations are eventually changed. Although I have tried to keep up with the changes, I have not always been able to, and the disappearance of a particular installation that I had already written about did not make me banish it from ...
... installations are eventually changed. Although I have tried to keep up with the changes, I have not always been able to, and the disappearance of a particular installation that I had already written about did not make me banish it from ...
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... installation.14 The museum setting is not only itself a structure; it also constructs its dramatis personae. These are, ideally, individuals who are perfectly predisposed socially, psychologically, and culturally to enact the museum ...
... installation.14 The museum setting is not only itself a structure; it also constructs its dramatis personae. These are, ideally, individuals who are perfectly predisposed socially, psychologically, and culturally to enact the museum ...
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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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