Research Catalog

Title

Art and its publics : museum studies at the millennium / edited by Andrew McClellan.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

McClellan, Andrew.

Description

xviii, 213 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Art and its Publics explores the interface between the art object, its site of display, and the viewing public. Engines of democracy at their inception during the French Revolution, public museums have since fostered the democratization of art. As museum-going has increased dramatically in recent years, the question of "whose museum?" and how museums construct and engage their publics has taken on added urgency. The essays in Art and its Publics present a cross-section of current issues, with contributions from both sides of the Atlantic and from museum professionals as well as academics. Essayists tackle issues confronting the museum community and seek to further the debate between theory and practice around the most pressing of contemporary concerns.

Series Statement

New interventions in art history

Uniform Title

New interventions in art history.

Subject

• Gestion des collections
• Visiteur
• Musée d'art
• Art museum attendance
• Art museums > Management
• Kunstmusea
• Publiek
• Museumkunde
• Art > Musées > Fréquentation
• Art > Musées > Gestion des collections

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-206) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A brief history of the art museum public / Andrew McClellan -- Having one's Tate and eating it: transformations of the museum in a hypermodern era / Nick Prior -- Museums: theory, practice and illusion / Danielle Rice -- Norman Rockwell at the Guggenheim / Alan Wallach -- The return to curiosity: shifting paradigms in contemporary museum display / Stephen Bann -- Museum sight / Anne Higonnet -- Sacred to profane and back again / Ivan Gaskell -- From theory to practice: exhibiting African art in the twenty-first century / Christa Clarke -- Reframing public art: audience use, interpretation, and appreciation / Harriet F. Senie.

ISBN

• 0631230467 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780631230465 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0631230475 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780631230472 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002007858

OCLC

• 49844696
• SCSB-10298876

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library