The Emergence of the Modern Museum

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources

Jonah Siegel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533113-4 (ISBN)

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In 1820 less than a handful of museums existed on the British Isles, and both their form and function were far from what a visitor today would expect, By the beginning of the First World War, not only had over 400 museums been founded in Great Britain, but their place in culture was recognizably close and often identical to the modern one - whether considered in terms of content, forms of display, or modes of access. Although there has never been a single simple and uncontested amount of the character and function of the museum, it is to this period of inception that we turn for the most urgent and compelling debates as to the nature of institutions that were set up with such effort and expense in England and all over the world. The goal of this anthology is to allow the reader access to primary sources indicative of the history and development of the museum in the nineteenth century, which is to say, at the moment the modern concept took institutional shape in response to the varied social and cultural debates.

Jonah Siegel is Professor of English, Rutgers University

Chronology
Introduction

One: From Collection to Museum

1. Private Collections
[William Bullock] / A Companion to Mr. Bullock's Museum (1810)
Gustav Friedrich Waagen / Treasures of Art in Great Britain (1838/1854)
Collecting in England
Blenheim Palace
Sir John Soane's Museum
Panshanger, Seat of Earl Cowper
William Hazlitt / Sketches of the Principal Pciture-Galleries in England (1824)
Mr. Angerstein's Collection

2. Toward Public Art Collection
House of Commons / Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Earl of Elgin's Collection (1816)
House of Commons / Parliamentary Debate on Purchasing the Elgin Marbles (1816)
House of Commons / Parliamentary Debate on Building the National Gallery (April 1832)
House of Commons / Parliamentary Debate on Building the National Gallery (July 1832)
Anonymous / The British Museum (1836)
Anna Jameson / The National Gallery (1842)

3. The Public in the Museum
Anonymous / The British Museum (1832)
House of Commons / Report of the Select Committee on Arts and Their Connexion with Manufactures (1836)
House of Commons / Report of the Select Committee on National Monuments and Works of Art (1841)
House of Commons / Report of the Select Committee on the National Gallery (1850)
H. M. Bateman / The Boy Who Breathed on Glass in the British Museum (1916)

Two: Rationalizing the National Collections

4. Art and the National Gallery
House of Commons / Testimony Before the Select Committee on the National Gallery (1853)
House of Commons / Testimony Before the National Gallery Site Commission (1857)
Gustav Friedrich Waagen / Thoughts on the New Building to Be Erected for the National Gallery of England (1853)

5. Natural History and the British Museum
W. I. Bicknell / The British Museum (1847)
Elizabeth Eastlake / The British Museum (1858)
House of Commons / The British Museum. Committee Moved For (1859)
Richard Owen / On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History (1862)
[William Henry Flower] / Topographical Description of the Museum and Its Contents, British Museum (Natural History) (1893)

6. Pedagogy: South Kensington and the Provinces
Henry Cole / Extracts from an Introductory Address on the Functions of the Science and Art Department (1857)
Anonymous / The South Kensington Museum (1859)
Anonymous / Provincial Museums (1866)
F. R. Sandford / Report on the System of Circulation of Art Objects on Loan from the South Kensington Museum (1881)

7. Reform and the Psychology of Museum Attendance
John Ruskin / On the Present State of Modern Art, with Reference to the Advisable Arrangement of a National Gallery (1867)
W. Stanley Jevons / The Use and Abuse of Museums (1883)

8. From Wonders to Signs: Anthropology and Archeology
David Murray / The Modern Museum (1904)
John Henry Parker / The Ashmolean Museum: Present State and Prospect (1870)
Augustus Henry Lane Fox (Pitt-Rivers) / Catalogue of the Anthropological Collection Lent by Colonel Lane for Exhibition in the Bethnal Green Museum (1874)

9. Exhibiting India
Anonymous / The India Museum, Whitehall (1861)
J. Forbes Watson / On the Measures Required for the Efficient Working of the India Museum and Library (1874)
Lord Curzon et al. / The Future Treatment of the Indian Collection at the Old South Kensington Museum (1909)

Glossary of Frequently Cited Collectors and Collections
Authors and Speakers
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2008
Zusatzinfo	11 halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 160 mm
Gewicht	723 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-533113-3 / 0195331133
ISBN-13	978-0-19-533113-4 / 9780195331134
Zustand	Neuware