Art apart : art institutions and ideology across England and North America /

Art apart : art institutions and ideology across England and North America / edited by Marcia Pointon. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1994. - x, 292p. : ill., plans ; 24cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: I, Whose museum? Whose gallery? From penitentiary to "temple of art": early metaphors of improvement at the Millbank Tate / Brandon Taylor; Culture, class, city: the National Gallery / C. Trodd; 1968 and all that: the founding of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC / M. Pointon; South Kensington Museum: the building of the house of Henry Cole / L. Purbrick; II, Artefacts, identity and nationhood. The battle over "The West as America", 1991 / A. Wallach; Blinded by science: ethnography at the British Museum / Annie E. Coombes; The politics of display: a "literary and historical" definition of Quebec in 1830s British North America / K. Stanworth; Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post / C.E. Brookeman; III, A proper place for the modern. Cultured into crisis: the Arts Council of Great Britain / Jonathan Harris; The politics of presentation: the Museum of Modern Art, New York / C. Grunenberg; Inside-out: assumptions of "English" modernism in the Whitechapel Art Gallery / J. Steyn; The frightening freedom of the brush: the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and Modern Art / S. Guilbaut; IV, Museum spaces and contemporary art. Questioning the structure: the museum context as content / A. Rorimer; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / J. - A. Berolowitz.

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