Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums

An Anthropology of Donations

Paul van der Grijp

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Routledge
06 December 2024

Art: financial aspects; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Museums & museology

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.

Presenting case studies from Europe, North America, East Asia, and the South Pacific, this book is concerned with both elite and popular collections and examines the act of donating art from the collector’s point of view. Demonstrating that art museums depend on donations from private collectors, Paul van der Grijp emphasizes that it is crucial to understand the psychological, sociological, economic, and educational motivations for gifting works of art to institutions. Taken together, the chapters argue that collectors donate to museums because the latter represent an imagined community, to whom those collectors would like to bestow a sacred gift. Private collectors are, Van der Grijp maintains, motivated to ensure the immortality of their collections and, ultimately, to preserve some memory of their own lives in the process.

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums, culture, art, anthropology, history, and sociology.

By: Paul van der Grijp
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032813219
ISBN 10: 1032813210
Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
Pages: 8
Publication Date: 06 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul van der Grijp is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology of the University of Lyon and a former researcher of the Centre for Research and Documentation of Oceania in Marseilles and the Institute of East Asia Studies in Lyon. He conducted lengthy periods of fieldwork in the South Pacific and East-Asia.