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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... kind of unbroken writing time I needed to complete the text. Above all, I wish to express my gratitude to Andrew Hemingway, who, over the last few years, has given me invaluable help, constant encouragement, and, most importantly ...
... kind of unbroken writing time I needed to complete the text. Above all, I wish to express my gratitude to Andrew Hemingway, who, over the last few years, has given me invaluable help, constant encouragement, and, most importantly ...
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... kind of adventure literature in which collectors or curators appear as clever sleuths or dashing heroes who track down and bag their art treasures like hunters or Don Juans.2 Meanwhile, architectural writers focus on the kind of ...
... kind of adventure literature in which collectors or curators appear as clever sleuths or dashing heroes who track down and bag their art treasures like hunters or Don Juans.2 Meanwhile, architectural writers focus on the kind of ...
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... kind of civic ritual. The third chapter discusses the creation of major art museums in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and looks at how, in New York, Chicago, and Boston, the ritual forms of ...
... kind of civic ritual. The third chapter discusses the creation of major art museums in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and looks at how, in New York, Chicago, and Boston, the ritual forms of ...
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... kind of place filled with a ritual- like atmosphere. In their analysis, "ritual" means something empty and meaningless, or it implies an elitist content - effects, they maintain, that art museums can and should avoid.7 In my view, the ...
... kind of place filled with a ritual- like atmosphere. In their analysis, "ritual" means something empty and meaningless, or it implies an elitist content - effects, they maintain, that art museums can and should avoid.7 In my view, the ...
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... . Like the term "artifact," the term "ritual" has also been treated as a lower term in a hierarchy. And, just as this study rejects the art/artifact dichotomy. so it refuses to position rituals as the kind of INTRODUCTION.
... . Like the term "artifact," the term "ritual" has also been treated as a lower term in a hierarchy. And, just as this study rejects the art/artifact dichotomy. so it refuses to position rituals as the kind of INTRODUCTION.
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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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