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Marble palaces, temples of art : art museums, architecture, and American culture, 1890-1930

Title: Marble palaces, temples of art : art museums, architecture, and American culture, 1890-1930 / Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce.
Author: Steffensen-Bruce, Ingrid A.
Publication: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1998.

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Description

265 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

"The era from 1890 to 1930 constituted a building boom for American art museums designed in a monumental, classical style; both the proliferation of the buildings and the ubiquity of the style seem to indicate an architectural as well as a sociocultural phenomenon. The present work is an attempt to place the American art museum building of this period into its historical milieu, and employs over one hundred illustrations and sociocultural analysis to explain the significance of both the institutions and the structures housing them to those who came into regular contact with them, including architects, patrons, journalists, and museum personnel."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-260) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Museum Age -- 1. Establishing a Style: Boston, New York, and Chicago -- 2. The Art Museum as Fair Spectacle -- 3. The Museum as Urban Cultural Locator: Art Museums, Municipal Parks, and the City Beautiful Movement -- 4. The Art Museum as Urban Moral Influence -- 5. Plans, Competitions, and Architectural Professionalism -- Conclusion: The Death and the Legacy of the Monumental Classical Art Museum.

ISBN

0838753515
9780838753514

LCCN

98004527

OCLC

ocm38566176
38566176
SCSB-9005639

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library