Civilizing Rituals : Inside Public Art Museums by Carol Duncan download ebook DJV, PDF, TXT
9780415070119 English 0415070112 Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants.Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for students of art history and museum studies, and professionals in the field will also find much of interest here., Public art museums have become necessary fixtures of every city or country with any claim to importance. Yet we have still to understand what happens in them.Civilizing Ritualstreats art museums from a new perspective--as ritual settings in their own right and as cultural artifacts that are much more than neutral shelters for art. Drawing from both anthropological and philosophical literature, Carol Duncan begins by exploring the idea of the art museum-as-ritual. She examines specific musuem rituals in the US, Britain and France including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musuem of Modern Art, the National Gallery in London, the Louvre and several donor memorials including the Frick Collection and the Morgan Library, not only in relation to their political and social contexts but also paying close attention to the details of the museum settings themselves. Duncan illuminates the ways in which musuems engage their visitors in the performance of ritual scenarios and,through them, commmunicate and affirm ideas, values and social identities. Art museums emerge as significant objects of historical and art-historical inquiry, sites on which political power and social interests and the history of cultural forms visibly intersect., The material conditions in which the production and consumption of art takes place is a topic of increasing importance in art history. This title studies art as an industry and a public practice, looking at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art to the community and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants.
9780415070119 English 0415070112 Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants.Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for students of art history and museum studies, and professionals in the field will also find much of interest here., Public art museums have become necessary fixtures of every city or country with any claim to importance. Yet we have still to understand what happens in them.Civilizing Ritualstreats art museums from a new perspective--as ritual settings in their own right and as cultural artifacts that are much more than neutral shelters for art. Drawing from both anthropological and philosophical literature, Carol Duncan begins by exploring the idea of the art museum-as-ritual. She examines specific musuem rituals in the US, Britain and France including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musuem of Modern Art, the National Gallery in London, the Louvre and several donor memorials including the Frick Collection and the Morgan Library, not only in relation to their political and social contexts but also paying close attention to the details of the museum settings themselves. Duncan illuminates the ways in which musuems engage their visitors in the performance of ritual scenarios and,through them, commmunicate and affirm ideas, values and social identities. Art museums emerge as significant objects of historical and art-historical inquiry, sites on which political power and social interests and the history of cultural forms visibly intersect., The material conditions in which the production and consumption of art takes place is a topic of increasing importance in art history. This title studies art as an industry and a public practice, looking at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art to the community and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants.