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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... ritual settings and as cultural artifacts that are much more than neutral shelters for art. She illuminates the ways in which museums in France, Britain and the United States engage their visitors in the performance of ritual scenarios ...
... ritual settings and as cultural artifacts that are much more than neutral shelters for art. She illuminates the ways in which museums in France, Britain and the United States engage their visitors in the performance of ritual scenarios ...
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... ritual structure. Several years later, when I began work on this book, those articles were my starting point. Inevitably, my ideas have undergone considerable development in the intervening years, but that early collaborative work has ...
... ritual structure. Several years later, when I began work on this book, those articles were my starting point. Inevitably, my ideas have undergone considerable development in the intervening years, but that early collaborative work has ...
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... ritual scenarios - various examples of which different chapters of this book will explore. My intent in this is not to argue a theory of ritual or a universal definition of it in the manner of comparative anthropology. Nor is my primary ...
... ritual scenarios - various examples of which different chapters of this book will explore. My intent in this is not to argue a theory of ritual or a universal definition of it in the manner of comparative anthropology. Nor is my primary ...
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... ritual structures. The main body of this book, however, will not treat museum rituals as isolated objects of study. It will certainly argue the ritual character of art museums, describe them as ritual settings, and analyze them as ritual ...
... ritual structures. The main body of this book, however, will not treat museum rituals as isolated objects of study. It will certainly argue the ritual character of art museums, describe them as ritual settings, and analyze them as ritual ...
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... ritual sites not so much because of their specific architectural references but because they, too, are settings for rituals. (I make no argument here for historical continuity, only for the existence of comparable ritual functions ...
... ritual sites not so much because of their specific architectural references but because they, too, are settings for rituals. (I make no argument here for historical continuity, only for the existence of comparable ritual functions ...
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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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