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The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao

The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao

Author: Andrew McClellan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 9780520251267

Category: Architecture

Page: 351

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Art museums, cases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values have been contested as never before. 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.
The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
Language: en
Pages: 351

The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao

Authors: Andrew McClellan
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

Art museums, cases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values have been contested as never before. This engaging thematic history of the art
Making Art History in Europe After 1945
Language: en
Pages: 312

Making Art History in Europe After 1945

Authors: Noemi de Haro García, Patricia Mayayo, Jesús Carrillo
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-12 - Publisher: Routledge

This book analyses the intermeshing of state power and art history in Europe since 1945 and up to the present from a critical, de-centered perspective. Devoting special attention to European peripheries and to under-researched transnational cultural political initiatives related to the arts implemented after the end of the Second World
The User Perspective on Twenty-First-Century Art Museums
Language: en
Pages: 288

The User Perspective on Twenty-First-Century Art Museums

Authors: Georgia Lindsay
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-14 - Publisher: Routledge

The User Perspective on Twenty-First Century Art Museums explains contemporary museums from the whole gamut of user experiences, whether users are preserving art, creating an exhibit, visiting, or part of institutions that use the architecture for branding. Fourteen museums from the United States, Europe, China, and Australia represent new construction,
Images of the Art Museum
Language: en
Pages: 382

Images of the Art Museum

Authors: Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Melania Savino
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-06 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

In recent years, the emerging field of museum studies has seen rapid expansion in the critical study of museums and scholars started to question the institution and its functions. To contribute differentiated viewpoints to the currently evolving meta-discourse on the museum, this volume aims to investigate how the institution of
Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Language: en
Pages: 118

Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Authors: Suzi Mirgani
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-31 - Publisher: Routledge

State-driven investments in art and cultural production in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are an important part of the search for longer-term alternatives to the longer-term unsustainability of the hydrocarbon-based economic development model. They also are an element in the search for soft power and status, and

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