Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 258 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350050730
Series Statement:
Leisure, consumption and culture
Content:
"Short-listed for the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2003 Museums have been the subject of intense debate in recent years and their history and development raise important questions. What was modern about the art museum? Why did museums emerge when and where they did? How were museums involved with the development of modern art worlds? What was the relationship between art galleries and their audiences and who were the key people involved with their inception? Focusing on the role of national art galleries in continental Europe, England and Scotland, this book explores in depth the interrelationship between artistic and exhibitionary forms, as well as between power and governance in those places where the roots of modern culture were being laid most visibly. Drawing upon debates concerning modernity, Prior investigates how the boundaries of art and culture have been determined within the museum world. In particular, he looks at the interface between the project of the nation and the gallery and how galleries were involved in making certain social groups or bodies feel at home and others excluded."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Part I. Museums and modernity in Europe and England -- Introduction -- From court to state: the emergence of national art museums in continental Europe -- 'the peculiarities of the English': the formation of the National Gallery, London -- Part II. Art, society and the birth of the National Gallery of Scotland -- Stirrings of the modern: art, civil society and the Scottish Enlightenment -- The birth of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1800-59 -- The high within and the low without: the social production of aesthetic space in the National Gallery of Scotland, 1859-70.
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Also published in print
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In:
Bloomsbury Cultural History, Bloomsbury Publishing
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845209179
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781859735039
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350050733
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781859735084
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781859735039
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350050730
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