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.
Edited by:
Susan M. Pearce
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 5
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9780485900057
ISBN 10: 048590005X
Series: New Research in Museum Studies
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 December 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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.
Susan Pearce if Director of the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
