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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... meanings, its meanings as a museum, are structured through its ritual. Chapter 1 of this book argues the idea of the art museum as a ritual, drawing on anthropological literature, philosophical notions about the aesthetic experience ...
... meanings, its meanings as a museum, are structured through its ritual. Chapter 1 of this book argues the idea of the art museum as a ritual, drawing on anthropological literature, philosophical notions about the aesthetic experience ...
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... meaning. 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.
... meaning. 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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... meaning and should not be taken for more, since ours is a secular society and museums are secular inventions. If museum facades have imitated temples or palaces, is it not simply that modern taste has tried to emulate the formal balance ...
... meaning and should not be taken for more, since ours is a secular society and museums are secular inventions. If museum facades have imitated temples or palaces, is it not simply that modern taste has tried to emulate the formal balance ...
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... meaning of the site (or to some object or objects on the site). Some individuals may use a ritual site more knowledgeably than others - they may be more educationally prepared to respond to its symbolic cues. The term "ritual" can also ...
... meaning of the site (or to some object or objects on the site). Some individuals may use a ritual site more knowledgeably than others - they may be more educationally prepared to respond to its symbolic cues. The term "ritual" can also ...
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Índice
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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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