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Art apart : art institutions and ideology across England and North America / edited by Marcia Pointon.

Contributor(s): Pointon, Marcia R | British Museum. Department of Ethnography
Language: English Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1994.Description: x, 292p. : ill., plans ; 24cm.ISBN: 0719039185Subject(s): Art museums -- Great Britain -- Management | Art museums -- North America -- Management
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Coins and Medals Shelves DO U POI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 120195-2001
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves H85 [POI-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M26378
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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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