| Description |
xviii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New interventions in art history ; 2 |
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New interventions in art history ; 2
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| Contents |
1. A Brief History of the Art Museum Public / Andrew McClellan -- 2. Having One's Tate and Eating It: Transformations of the Museum in a Hypermodern Era / Nick Prior -- 3. Museums: Theory, Practice, and Illusion / Danielle Rice -- 4. Norman Rockwell at the Guggenheim / Alan Wallach -- 5. The Return to Curiosity: Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Museum Display / Stephen Bann -- 6. Museum Sight / Anne Higonnet -- 7. Sacred to Profane and Back Again / Ivan Gaskell -- 8. From Theory to Practice: Exhibiting African Art in the Twenty-First Century / Christa Clarke -- 9. Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation / Harriet F. Senie |
| Summary |
Art and its Publics explores the interface between the art object, its site of display, and the viewing public. Engines of democracy at their inception during the French Revolution, public museums have since fostered the democratization of art. As museum-going has increased dramatically in recent years, the question of "whose museum?" and how museums construct and engage their publics has taken on added urgency. The essays in Art and its Publics present a cross-section of current issues, with contributions from both sides of the Atlantic and from museum professionals as well as academics. Essayists tackle issues confronting the museum community and seek to further the debate between theory and practice around the most pressing of contemporary concerns |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-206) and index |
| Subject |
Art museum attendance.
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Art museums -- Management.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
McClellan, Andrew.
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| LC no. |
2002007858 |
| ISBN |
0631230475 paperback alkaline paper |
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0631230467 : |
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