Art apart : art institutions and ideology across England and North America / edited by Marcia Pointon. - x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Introduction -- From Penitentiary to 'Temple of Art': Early Metaphors of Improvement at the Millbank Tate -- Culture, Class, City: The National Gallery, London and the Spaces of Education, 1822-57 -- 1968 and All That: The Founding of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC -- South Kensington Museum: The Building of the House of Henry Cole -- The Battle Over 'the West as America', 1991 -- Blinded by 'Science': Ethnography at the British Museum -- The Politics of Display: A 'Literary and Historical' Definition of Quebec of 1830s British North America -- Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post: Advertising, Iconography and Mass Production 1897-1929 -- Cultured Into Crisis: The Arts Council of Great Britain -- The Politics of Presentation: The Museum of Modern Art, New York -- Inside-Out: Assumptions of 'English' Modernism in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1914 -- The Frightening Freedom of the Brush: The Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and Modern Art -- Questioning the Structure: The Museum Context as Content -- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: An Account of the Collaboration between Artists, Trustees and an Architect -- Notes on contributors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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Art museums--Management--Great Britain
Art museums--Management--North America

N1020 / .A78 1994

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