Format:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781134053551
Content:
Museum Architecture: A New Biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Architecture, museums and museum studies -- Scope of the research -- 1. Telling stories of museum architecture -- Architecture and language: systems of difference -- Telling stories of museum architecture -- Surveying the iconic: architecture as stylistic development -- Museums as an apparatus of the State: architecture as technology -- The battle between art and architecture: architecture as function -- From the iconic to the particular and the special to the everyday: lives of (and in) museum buildings -- Re-thinking architecture: the turn to the social and human bodies -- The built environment as a social and cultural production -- Significant Lives: Historical Fragments of Architectural Production -- Architecture as a product of use -- Architecture as active in the making of human consciousness and identity -- Significant lives: historical fragments of architectural production -- Biography and storytelling: significant lives -- 2. 'Hobson's choice': art and grog in Liverpool -- Uncultured and uncivilised: public perceptions of Liverpool -- Liverpool's leading men: towards the design of a Gallery of Art -- Sanitising the city: the role of architecture and culture -- The McDougall Cartoons: scandal, outrage and censure -- The opening ceremony: pomp, celebrations and protest -- Conclusion -- 3. 'It is, of course, very easy to make merry over the Alderman in Art': the 1930s extension and renovation -- Social change, economic uncertainty and popular culture -- Protest and dissent: perceptions of the Walker Art Gallery by 1921 -- A new professionalism -- Reshaping the Walker Art Gallery: a committee, a city and the profession -- New scientific approaches to lighting picture galleries -- The new Walker Art Gallery
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4. Ration cards, food hordes and art: occupation by friendly forces and thebattle for liberation 1939-1951 -- A building transformed through use -- Night time defenders of the Walker Art Gallery -- An arts programme for wartime Liverpool -- The battle for control of the Walker Art Gallery -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion: celebrations, openings and accolades -- 5. Art (and architecture) in a city: ambition, illusion and revolution -- Introduction -- Hugh Scrutton 1952-1970: the birth of the modern profession, standardisation and art -- 'Standard for any art gallery': collection care, storage and documentation -- Acquisition and increasing state support for art in the regions -- Art exhibitions: commanding a national stage -- Research, scholarship and publication -- Piecemeal architectural change -- Art (and architecture) in a city -- 'We weren't in the business of saving the Walker': the abolition of the Metropolitan County Councils and nationalisation, 1983-1986 -- Conclusion -- 6. The social architecture of museums -- The social architecture of museums -- Differential space -- Critical spatial practice -- Notes -- Appendix: Harold Furniss' Testimony -- Abbreviations -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version MacLeod, Suzanne Museum Architecture Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415529044
Language:
English
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