The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
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Art museums have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. Though art museums have never been more popular, their direction and values are now being contested as never beforeboth in the media and in the art world itself. This engaging thematic history of the art museum from its inception in the eighteenth century to the present offers an essential framework for understanding contemporary debates as they have evolved in Europe and the United States. From the visionary museums of Boullée in the eighteenth century to the new Guggenheim in Bilbao and beyond, it explores key aspects of museum theory and practice: ideals and mission; architecture; collecting, classification, and display; the public; commercialism; and restitution and repatriation. The only single volume to give a comprehensive account of the issues critical to museums, the book also highlights the challenges they will face in the future.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520247673 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 18 Jan 2008 |
DEWEY: | 708 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 364 |
Weight: | 1171g |
Height: | 267mm |
Width: | 184mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |