Civilizing Rituals

Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums

by Duncan, Carol

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Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art, and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants. Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for students of art history and museum studies, and professionals …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Civilizing Rituals : Inside Public Art Museums.

Summary

Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art, and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants. Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for students of art history and museum studies, and professionals in the field will also find much of interest here.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2005
  • Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
  • Place of Publication:Florence
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2005

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (391 pages).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780203978719, 0203978714
  • oclc:on1048512512
  • LC Classification:N430 ǂb D84 1995eb
  • Dewey Decimal:708

Table of Contents

RE VISIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ART -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE and acknowledgments -- Footnotes -- INTRODUCTION -- Footnotes -- 1 THE ART MUSEUM AS RITUAL -- 2 FROM THE PRINCELY GALLERY TO THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM -- I -- II -- 3 PUBLIC SPACES, PRIVATE INTERESTS -- 4 SOMETHING ETERNAL -- 5 THE MODERN ART MUSEUM -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Footnotes.

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Subjects

Art museum attendance Art museums -- Social aspects Musées d'art -- Fréquentation

Writers

Duncan, Carol

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