The American art museum : elitism and democracy
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書誌事項
The American art museum : elitism and democracy
（Contemporary issues in museum culture）
Leicester University Press, 1997
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-218) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This text explores the beginnings of the American art museum as an institution in the 19th-century, and its subsequent development within the context of the US democratic society. The contradictions and conflicts created in and by museums in the USA are discussed and reviewed in the light of the mission and social role of the 20th-century American art museum.
目次
- How the motives of art patronage during the American Renaissance shaped the art museum
- the American art museum - a symbol of democracy
- America's first museums - the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
- the role of the federal government - the National Gallery, Washington, DC, the National Endowment for the Arts
- the development of American modernism and its influence on the American art museum
- art for the masses - a study of educational practices in American art museums
- capitalism and the American art museum - an analysis of the corporate influence
- the scholar and the capitalist - the common goals of Alfred H Barr and Nelson Rockefeller in building the Museum of Modern Art
- transformations - a developmental examination of the Museum of Modern Art.
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