| Description |
x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. From Penitentiary to 'Temple of Art': Early Metaphors of Improvement at the Millbank Tate / Brandon Taylor -- 2. Culture, Class, City: The National Gallery, London and the Spaces of Education, 1822-57 / Colin Trodd -- 3. 1968 and All That: The Founding of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC / Marcia Pointon -- 4. South Kensington Museum: The Building of the House of Henry Cole / Louise Purbrick -- 5. The Battle Over 'the West as America', 1991 / Alan Wallach -- 6. Blinded by 'Science': Ethnography at the British Museum / Annie E. Coombes -- 7. The Politics of Display: A 'Literary and Historical' Definition of Quebec of 1830s British North America / Karen Stanworth -- 8. Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post: Advertising, Iconography and Mass Production 1897-1929 / C. E. Brookeman -- 9. Cultured Into Crisis: The Arts Council of Great Britain / Jonathan Harris -- 10. The Politics of Presentation: The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Christoph Grunenberg |
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11. Inside-Out: Assumptions of 'English' Modernism in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1914 / Juliet Steyn -- 12. The Frightening Freedom of the Brush: The Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and Modern Art / Serge Guilbaut -- 13. Questioning the Structure: The Museum Context as Content / Ann Rorimer -- 14. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: An Account of the Collaboration between Artists, Trustees and an Architect / Jo-Anne Berelowitz |
| Analysis |
Art galleries Management |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art museums -- Philosophy.
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Art museums -- Great Britain -- Management.
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Art museums -- North America -- Management.
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Museums -- Administration.
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Museums -- Management.
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Museums -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Pointon, Marcia R.
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| LC no. |
93044614 |
| ISBN |
0719039177 |
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0719039185 (paperback) |
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