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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... Societies, which I also gratefully acknowledge. The ACLS grant gave me the 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 ...
... Societies, which I also gratefully acknowledge. The ACLS grant gave me the 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 ...
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... societies, has become especially urgent as post-colonial nations attempt to define and redefine their cultural identities and as minority cultures in the West seek cultural recognition. However pressing these issues, the question I am ...
... societies, has become especially urgent as post-colonial nations attempt to define and redefine their cultural identities and as minority cultures in the West seek cultural recognition. However pressing these issues, the question I am ...
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... societies on a hierarchical scale, with the western ones (plus a few far eastern courtly cultures) on top as producers of art and non-western ones below as producers of artifacts. This scale is built on the assumption that only works of ...
... societies on a hierarchical scale, with the western ones (plus a few far eastern courtly cultures) on top as producers of art and non-western ones below as producers of artifacts. This scale is built on the assumption that only works of ...
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... 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 and dignity of those structures, or that it has wished to ...
... 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 and dignity of those structures, or that it has wished to ...
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... societies, rituals may be quite unspectacular and informal-looking moments of contemplation or recognition. At the same time, as anthropologists argue, our supposedly secular, even anti-ritual, culture is full of ritual situations and ...
... societies, rituals may be quite unspectacular and informal-looking moments of contemplation or recognition. At the same time, as anthropologists argue, our supposedly secular, even anti-ritual, culture is full of ritual situations and ...
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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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