Lois Marie Fink

Gebundenes Buch

A History of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Intersection of Art, Science, and Bureaucracy

Beschreibung

Dedicated to the art of the United States, the Smithsonian American Art Museum contains works by more than 7,000 artists. This work recounts its history from 1846 to 1980. It also unravels the various levels of institutional authority, power, governance, and bureaucracy and shows how people at each level influenced the fortunes of the collection.

Autor

Author of American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, Lois Marie Fink is research curator emerita at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she worked for twenty-three years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 185mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781558496163
• ISBN-10: 1558496165
• Artikelnr.: 22902850