Museum skepticism : a history of the display of art in public galleries / David Carrier.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006Description: xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0822336820
- 9780822336822
- 0822336944
- 9780822336945
- 708.009 22
- N430 .C37 2006
Contents:
1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre -- 2. Art and power : time travel in the museum -- 3. Museum skeptics -- 4. Picturing museum skepticism -- 5. Art museum narratives -- 6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- 7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art -- 8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum -- 9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty museum -- 10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities -- Conclusion : What the public art museum might become
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 708.009 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A426861B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-304) and index.
1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre -- 2. Art and power : time travel in the museum -- 3. Museum skeptics -- 4. Picturing museum skepticism -- 5. Art museum narratives -- 6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- 7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art -- 8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum -- 9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty museum -- 10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities -- Conclusion : What the public art museum might become
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