David Carrier

Museum Skepticism

A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prominent art historian looks at the birth of the art museum and contemplates its future as a public institution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336822
• ISBN-10: 0822336820
• Artikelnr.: 21998565

Autorenporträt

David Carrier is the Champney Family Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. His books include Sean Scully; Writing about Visual Art; The Aesthetics of Comics; High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting; Principles of Art History Writing; and Poussin’s Paintings.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Overture 1
1. “Beauty and Art, History and Fame and Power”: On Entering the Louvre 17
2. Art and Power: Time Travel in the Museum 39
3. Museum Skeptics 51
4. Picturing Museum Skepticism 74
5. Art Museum Narratives 91
6. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Museum 110
7. Ernest Fenollosa’s History of Asian Art 126
8. Albert Barnes’s Foundation and the Place of Modernist Art within the Art
Museum 146
9. The Display of Absolutely Contemporary Art in the J. Paul Getty Museum
165
10. The End of the Modern Public Art Museum: A Tale of Two Cities 181
Conclusion: What the Public Art Museum Might Become 208
Notes 225
Bibliography 269
Index 305