The Art Museum In America

Author : Kathleen Curran
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064788

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The Invention of the American Art Museum by Kathleen Curran Pdf

American art museums share a mission and format that differ from those of their European counterparts, which often have origins in aristocratic collections. This groundbreaking work recounts the fascinating story of the invention of the modern American art museum, starting with its roots in the 1870s in the craft museum type, which was based on London’s South Kensington (now the Victoria and Albert) Museum. At the turn of the twentieth century, American planners grew enthusiastic about a new type of museum and presentation that was developed in Northern Europe, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. Called Kulturgeschichte (cultural history) museums, they were evocative displays of regional history. American trustees, museum directors, and curators found that the Kulturgeschichte approach offered a variety of transformational options in planning museums, classifying and displaying objects, and broadening collecting categories, including American art and the decorative arts. Leading institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, adopted and developed crucial aspects of the Kulturgeschichte model. By the 1930s, such museum plans and exhibition techniques had become standard practice at museums across the country.

Author : Suzanne Loebl
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393320065

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America's Art Museums by Suzanne Loebl Pdf

A tour of America's most notable museums is also a history of the nation's art that highlights each location's top works while discussing the backgrounds of each building and featured piece of art.

Author : Walter Pach
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781473387607

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The Art Museum In America by Walter Pach Pdf

Walter Pach was an artist, critic, lecturer, art adviser, and art historian who wrote extensively about modern art and championed the cause of modern art. Through his numerous books, articles, and translations of European art texts Pach brought the emerging modernist viewpoint to the American public. Pach's fluency in French, German, and Spanish allowed him to understand and interpret new avant-garde ideas developing in Europe and to translate them for an English-speaking audience. 'The Art Museum in America'' calls into question the relevance, responsibility, and future direction of the American art museum.

Author : Theresa J. Slowik
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810955326

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America's Art by Theresa J. Slowik Pdf

Celebrating the reopening of the newly restored Smithsonian American Art Museum, a premier collection of American art features more than 250 reproductions of great works of American painting, sculpture, folk art, and photography, by such artists as Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Nam June Paik, and other luminaries.

Author : Michele Greet,Gina McDaniel Tarver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351777902

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Art Museums of Latin America by Michele Greet,Gina McDaniel Tarver Pdf

Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.

Author : David Breslin,Adrienne Edwards
Publisher : Whitney Museum of American Art
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0300263899

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Whitney Biennial 2022 by David Breslin,Adrienne Edwards Pdf

Presenting the latest iteration of this crucial exhibition, always a barometer of contemporary American art The 2022 Whitney Biennial is accompanied by this landmark volume. Each of the Biennial's participants is represented by a selected exhibition history, a bibliography, and imagery complemented by a personal statement or interview that foregrounds the artist's own voice. Essays by the curators and other contributors elucidate themes of the exhibition and discuss the participants. The 2022 Biennial's two curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, are known for their close collaboration with living artists. Coming after several years of seismic upheaval in and beyond the cultural, social, and political landscapes, this catalogue will offer a new take on the storied institution of the Biennial while continuing to serve--as previous editions have--as an invaluable resource on present-day trends in contemporary art in the United States.

Author : Michael K. Komanecky,Jane Biano,Angela Waldron
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847867042

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Maine and American Art by Michael K. Komanecky,Jane Biano,Angela Waldron Pdf

In this expansive volume devoted to one of the premier art collections in the U.S., the rich and full picture of Maine's central role in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present is chronicled. Published on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial, the book considers more than 200 major works of American art from the Farnsworth Art Museum's impressive holdings and details how the state has figured prominently in the development of American art. The volume includes artists as diverse as Andrew Wyeth, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francesco Clemente, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alex Katz, among others. Through their work, a fascinating depiction of the state--and indeed of the development of American art--emerges. The volume will feature two historic sites: the Farnsworth Homestead (the National Register of Historic Places home of founder Lucy Copeland Farnsworth) and the National Historic Landmark Olson House, inspiration for some 300 works by Andrew Wyeth, including Christina's World. The book also considers Lucy Copeland Farnsworth's distinctive vision to create a museum, library, and historic house, placing her among the few and still under-recognized women who created museums throughout the United States in the early twentieth century.

Author : Walter Pach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:484729134

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The Art Museum in America by Walter Pach Pdf

Author : Philip Kopper
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art museums
ISBN : UOM:39015021499333

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America's National Gallery of Art by Philip Kopper Pdf

This handsome tribute to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. traces the history of the museum from conception to construction on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Opened with great fanfare, the National Gallery was "the richest single gift from any individual to any nation ever." That individual was financier Andrew Mellon. Kopper's succinct biography covers Mellon's personal and political life as well as his passion for collecting the paintings of old masters. Mellon's bequest stipulated the museum's name, location, and details of governance, ensuring continued high standards and a vital future. Kopper includes profiles of the architect and various museum directors, including Mellon's son Paul, as well as illustrations that document some of the collection's highlights. ISBN 0-8109-3658-5: $60.00 (For use only in the library)

Author : Eric M Wolf
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393732800

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American Art Museum Architecture by Eric M Wolf Pdf

Exploring the intersections of art, architecture, and design, at both renowned institutions and cutting-edge contemporary collections. Museum interior spaces must be as carefully designed as their façades—if not more so—to meet the needs of both the art on display and the viewers. The design and construction of art museums in America thus is a complex process, and one rarely undertaken lightly. The architect must design a building that effectively supports the art exhibited. The museumgoers’ interaction with the art must be enhanced by the architecture, while amenities such as restaurants, cafes, gift shops, and accessible and convenient restrooms ensure their comfort. Finally, the storage of works of art not on display must be accounted for in the building design. American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design explores all aspects of, and approaches to, museum architecture—the aesthetic, the practical, the innovative, and the functional. Architectural historian Eric M. Wolf delves into the archives of some of the country’s premier institutions not only to explore the design decisions made at their founding, but also to understand how those institutions have continued to evolve along with their collections, up to the present day. Wolf examines the gradual development of six major museums: the Frick Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Menil Collection in Houston, the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He explains how each museum was originally conceived, how the architecture reflected or modified that original conception, and how the buildings have been reconsidered or revised in later years, as the nature of art, art display, and museum-going has evolved. Extensive archival plans, documents, and photographs enhance the narrative. American Art Museum Architecture also considers the unique architectural challenges often posed by contemporary art. Conceptual art, video installations, and large-scale pieces are increasingly found in permanent collections, at small galleries and encyclopedic institutions alike. Museums built decades ago may have to renovate in order to accommodate such pieces, while newer museums devoted to contemporary work must tackle new architectural challenges when considering how best to house this work. Encompassing both grand nineteenth-century institutions and avant-garde contemporary art collections, American Art Museum Architecture is a timely and fascinating exploration of the ever-changing relationship between architecture and art.

Author : Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0761989471

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The Museum in America by Edward Porter Alexander Pdf

A detailed account of the colourful histories of 13 visionary museum innovators, who transformed the 19th-century collections of curios into institutions that inform and instruct.

Author : Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher : Giles
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822040874976

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Our America by Smithsonian American Art Museum Pdf

Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.

Author : WALTER. PACH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033169358

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ART MUSEUM IN AMERICA by WALTER. PACH Pdf

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300187335

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The Civil War and American Art by Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum Pdf

Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

Author : J. Mark Davidson Schuster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015025390363

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The Audience for American Art Museums by J. Mark Davidson Schuster Pdf

This study uses data from the 1985 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) to explore the composition of the audience for art museums and art galleries in the United States. Organized into four parts, part 1 reports that when asked if they had visited an art museum or art gallery in the 12 months preceding their 1985 SPPA interview, 22 percent of the adult population said that they had. The report goes on to present art museum participation rates across a variety of demographic variables--income, education, age, gender, race, geographic distribution, and occupation. This section also compares the 1985 SPPA participation rates with those of the Americans and the Arts Studies, and with participation rates from Great Britain, France, Sweden, and Quebec. A statistical model designed to predict the probability of attendance based on demographic factors also is developed in part 1, but this model's low predictive ability leads to the conclusion that other variables need to be examined. Part 2 of the report focuses on three SPPA socialization questions that are most likely to be linked to attendance at art museums: whether or not, and at what ages, the respondent had ever taken lessons in the visual arts; whether or not, and at what ages, the respondent had taken art appreciation classes; and whether or not, and the frequency with which, parents had taken the respondent to museums. An analysis of these questions reveals that all three of these factors show a strong relationship with increased attendance. Part 3 of the report examines unsatisfied demand and barriers to attendance. Part 4 presents a profile of the museum audience and examines how the demographic characteristics of the SPPA respondents are distributed among the museum audience and how this audience profile compares to the profile of the general population. An appendix that presents the mathematical results from the three logit analyses (a variation of regression analysis) that were conducted with the SPPA museum attendance data also is included. (DB)