Art in museums
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Art in museums
(New research in museum studies : an international series / series editor, Susan Pearce ; reviews editor, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, 5)
Athlone Press, 1995
Available at 18 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Displaying art in museum galleries is more complex than it used to be. This book aims to canvass past and contemporary problems of cultural representation and of the relationship between the artist, the museum and society. It aims to explore issues relating to audiences for art, and the role of galleries in these and other debates. Topics discussed include: display, cultural representation, the artist and society, museums and the art market.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Chantrey episode: art classification, museums and the state circa 1870-1920
- the origins of the early picture gallery catalogue in Europe, and its application in Victorian Britain
- the devaluation of "cultural capital" - postmodern democracy and the art blockbuster
- the collection despite Barnes - from private preserve to blockbuster
- the public interest in the art museums' public
- audiences - a curatorial dilemma
- extending the frame - forging a new partnership with the public
- revolutionary "vandalism" and the birth of the museum
- Rome, the archetypal museum, and the Louvre, the negation of division
- the historicality of art - Royal Academy (1780-1836) and Courtauld Institute Galleries (1990 - ...) at Somerset House. Part 2 Reviews edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill: "He shoots! ... he scores!" - Toronto's new Hockney Hall of Fame is a winner
- St Mungo's Museum of Religious Art and Life
- from Petrarch to Huizinga - the visual arts as an historical source
- report on the conference "To the genealogy of the museum", Nationalmuseet Copenhagen, 23-25 September 1993.
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