Whose Muse? (eBook)

Art Museums and the Public Trust

James Cuno (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18868-3 (ISBN)

Infos

During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and ambition. They came to be seen as new civic centers: on the one hand as places of entertainment, leisure, and commerce, on the other as socially therapeutic institutions. But museums were also criticized for everything from elitism to looting or illegally exporting works from other countries, to exhibiting works offensive to the public taste. Whose Muse? brings together five directors of leading American and British art museums who together offer a forward-looking alternative to such prevailing views. While their approaches differ, certain themes recur: As museums have become increasingly complex and costly to manage, and as government support has waned, the temptation is great to follow policies driven not by a mission but by the market. However, the directors concur that public trust can be upheld only if museums continue to see their core mission as building collections that reflect a nation's artistic legacy and providing informed and unfettered access to them. The book, based on a lecture series of the same title held in 2000-2001 by the Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors, also includes an introduction by Cuno and a fascinating--and surprisingly frank--roundtable discussion among the participating directors. A rare collection of sustained reflections by prominent museum directors on the current state of affairs in their profession, this book is without equal. It will be read widely not only by museum professionals, trustees, critics, and scholars, but also by the art-loving public itself.

Autor

James Cuno is President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago; Philippe de Montebello is Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Glenn D. Lowry is Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Neil MacGregor is Director of the British Museum, London; John Walsh is Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and James N. Wood is Former President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Co-Autor: James Cuno, Philippe De Montebello, Glenn D. Lowry, Neil MacGregor, John Walsh, James N. Wood
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Schlagworte: adage • Adapt • Agnes Gund • Andres Serrano • Anne d'Harnoncourt • Anthony van Dyck • antiquities trade • aphorism • ART • Art criticism • art exhibition • Art History • Art in America • art museum • Auction • Bernard Berenson • Boredom • british institution • British Library • Business Ethics • Calculation • Caspar David Friedrich • Censure • Charles Saatchi • Chris Ofili • Cubism • culture war • curator • Damien Hirst • distrust • Elliot Eisner • Emerging Technologies • Enron • Equal Opportunity • Facsimile • Fraud • George Soros • Gerhard Richter • German Art • Glenn D. Lowry • Hannah Arendt • Headline • high renaissance • Iconoclasm • Impressionism • Institution • In the Car • Iris Murdoch • Islamic art • James Abbott McNeill Whistler • James Cuno • James Elkins (art historian) • J. Paul Getty Museum • Kirk Varnedoe • Layoff • Leonardo da Vinci • life insurance • Looting • Masaccio • Meyer Schapiro • Michael Baxandall • Michael Kimmelman • modern art • Museum • National Gallery of Art • Neil MacGregor • New Museum • obscenity • Painting (Blue Star) • Paul Gauguin • pessimism • Pornography • private collection • Public sphere • Putto • Rainer Maria Rilke • Renaissance Art • R. G. Collingwood • Richard Benefield • Richard Meier • Roberta Smith • scenic design • sense of place • sex scandal • Smithsonian Institution • Stephen Greenblatt • still life • Tax • The Great Exhibition • The New York Review of Books • The New York Times • Thomas Bernhard • Thomas Krens • Tintoretto • titian • trade fair • Vatican Museums • Walter Benjamin • Western Painting • work of art
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18868-8 / 0691188688
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18868-3 / 9780691188683