Paul van der Grijp

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums (eBook, PDF)

An Anthropology of Donations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040257463
• Artikelnr.: 72268028

Autorenporträt

Paul van der Grijp is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology of the University of Lyon and a former researcher of the Centre for Research and Documentation of Oceania in Marseilles and the Institute of East Asia Studies in Lyon. He conducted lengthy periods of fieldwork in the South Pacific and East-Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Motivations
1 The self-enhancement motive
2 Augmenting social status
3 The investment motive
4 Transmission of knowledge
Part II Museums
5 Collection or museum
6 Museums in east asia
7 Gifts to museums in taiwan
8 Founding a collection museum
9 Museums and the imagined community
Part III Private collectors
10 Early modern art collectors
11 Donations by collecting artists
12 Asian art and culture
Conclusions on donations