Art apart : art institutions and ideology across England and North America

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Art apart : art institutions and ideology across England and North America

edited by Marcia Pointon

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780719039171

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From the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Tate in London, this book examines the ways in which major international museums, galleries and arts-funding bodies address their roles in relation to wider cultural and political issues such as education, public accountability and avant-gardism. A series of case studies provide information about the origins and development of a selection of significant art institutions, and a critique of display and management within cultural organizations. It also sets out the major debates in this field, including the fundamental question as to what actually consititutes an institution.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Whose museum? whose gallery?: from penitentiary to "Temple of Art" - early metaphors of improvement at the Millbank Tate, Brandon Taylor
  • culture, class, city - the national gallery, London and the spaces of education, 1822-1857, Colin Trodd
  • 1968 and all that - the founding of the national portrait gallery, Washington DC, Marcia Pointon
  • the South Kensington museum - the building of the house of Henry Cole, Louise Purbrick. Part 2 Artifacts, identity and nationhood: the battle over "The West as America", 1991, Alan Wallach
  • blinded by science - ethnography at the British museum, Annie E. Coombes
  • the politics of display - a "literary and historical" definition of Quebec in 1830s British North America, Karen Stanworth
  • Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post - advertising, iconography and mass production 1897-1929, C.E. Brookeman. Part 3 A proper place for the modern: cultured into crisis - the arts council of Great Britain, Jonathan Harris
  • the politics of presentation - the museum of modern art, New York, Christoph Grunenberg
  • inside-out - assumptions of "English" modernism in the Whitechapel art gallery, London, 1914, Juliet Steyn
  • the frightening freedom of the brush - the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and Modern Art, Serge Guilbaut. Part 4 Museum spaces and contemporary art: questioning the structure - the museum context as content, Anne Rorimer
  • the museum of contemporary art, Los Angeles - an account of collaboration between artists, trustees, and an architect, Jo-Anne Berelowitz.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719039188

Description

From the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Tate in London, this book examines the ways in which major international museums, galleries and arts-funding bodies address their roles in relation to wider cultural and political issues such as education, public accountability and avant-gardism. A series of case studies provide information about the origins and development of a selection of significant art institutions, and a critique of display and management within cultural organizations. It also sets out the major debates in this field, including the fundamental question as to what actually consititutes an institution.

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