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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... social 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 ...
... social 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 ...
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... 1 . Art Museums-Social aspects. 2. Art Museums- Visitors. I. Title. N430.D84 1995 708-dc20 94-31251 ISBN 0-415-0701 1-2 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-07012-0 (pbk) CONTENTS List of illustrations vii Preface and acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION.
... 1 . Art Museums-Social aspects. 2. Art Museums- Visitors. I. Title. N430.D84 1995 708-dc20 94-31251 ISBN 0-415-0701 1-2 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-07012-0 (pbk) CONTENTS List of illustrations vii Preface and acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION.
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... social, sexual and political 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 ...
... social, sexual and political 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 ...
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... social and political interests, they are not entirely reducible to these categories. It is, in my view, precisely the complexity of the art museum - its existence as a profoundly symbolic cultural object as well as a social, political ...
... social and political interests, they are not entirely reducible to these categories. It is, in my view, precisely the complexity of the art museum - its existence as a profoundly symbolic cultural object as well as a social, political ...
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... social and historical circumstances in which specific museum rituals have been formed. Its larger argument is not simply that art museums are ritual structures, but rather that, as ritual structures, museums are rich and interesting ...
... social and historical circumstances in which specific museum rituals have been formed. Its larger argument is not simply that art museums are ritual structures, but rather that, as ritual structures, museums are rich and interesting ...
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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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