Research Catalog

Title

A cultivating journey : the Herman H. Levy legacy = Un voyage au cœur de l'art : le legs Herman H. Levy.

Author

McMaster Museum of Art, creator, publisher, host institution.

Publication

Hamilton, Ontario : McMaster Museum of Art, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• McMaster Museum of Art, host institution.
• Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution.
• Kelowna Art Gallery, host institution.

Description

220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 29 cm

Summary

A cultivating journey' examines the collection of significant European historical and modern art donated to the McMaster Museum of Art by Herman Levy in 1984, and includes works by Courbet, Derain, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Today the production of such a project raises the critical question: how does the museum collect in the twenty-first century? This would have been a much easier consideration when the Levy donation entered the museum's collection. Up until that time, art history and the museum were Western inventions that served a particular period (circa 1860-1980) without contestation. The situation has since changed, forcing a reconsideration of the making, collecting, and presenting of art in a diverse and global world through a decidedly ideological institution. This thoroughly illustrated publication serves as both exhibition catalogue as well as an analysis of the task at hand. In essays and extended didactic statements on individual works, experts in their fields document the conundrum while speaking to/in the present museological moment. Discussions include the act of collecting; the transfer of personal to public; the enduring yet changing cultural significance of works of art - formally and socio-politically; the changing nature of collections; and the role of the museum in naming, classifying, interpreting, and maintaining works of cultural heritage.

Alternative Title

Voyage au cœur de l'art : le legs Herman H. Levy

Subjects

• Art, European > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections > Ontario > Hamilton > Exhibitions
• McMaster Museum of Art Exhibitions
• Levy, Herman Herzog > Art collections > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of a touring exhibition held at the McMaster Museum of Art from September 1 to December 9, 2017, at the Vancouver Art Gallery from March 3 to May 21, 2018, and at the Kelowna Art Gallery from June 16 to October 28, 2018.

Source (note)

• Text in English and French.

Call Number

JQF 18-616

ISBN

• 9781926632186
• 1926632184

OCLC

1016643830

Author

McMaster Museum of Art, creator, publisher, host institution.

Title

A cultivating journey : the Herman H. Levy legacy = Un voyage au cœur de l'art : le legs Herman H. Levy.

Publisher

Hamilton, Ontario : McMaster Museum of Art, [2018]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

McMaster Museum of Art, host institution.

Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution.

Kelowna Art Gallery, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-616