Museums and Modernity
Subtitle: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture (Leisure, Consumption and Culture)
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: June 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781859735084
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Museums & Museology; Social Science; General; Art museums; Art & Art Instruction; Popular Culture - General; Sociology; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Great Britain; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Social Science / Popular Culture; Art and state; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe; History
Description: "Museums have been the subject of intense debate in recent years and their history and development raise important questions. What was 'modern' about the art museum? Why did museums emerge when and where they did? How were museums involved with the development of modern art worlds? What was the relationship between art galleries and their audiences and who were the key people involved with their inception?" "Focusing on the role of the national art galleries in continental Europe, England and Scotland, this book explores in depth the interrelationship between artistic and exhibitionary form, as well as between power and governance in those places where the roots of modern culture were being laid most visibly. Drawing upon debates concerning modernity, Prior investigates how the boundaries of art and culture have been determined within the museum world. In particular, he looks at the interface between the project of the nation and the gallery and how galleries were involved in making certain social groups or bodies feel 'at home' and others excluded."--Jacket.