Capital Culture
Subtitle: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226067841
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: National gallery of art (u.s.)
First sentence: Few Americans of his day were born with more advantages than J. Carter Brown III.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: Becoming Carter Brown; label: 2
title: The Nations Gallery:  Directions and Deviations; label: 3
title: Stalking the Prey:  The Quest for Old Masters; label: 4
title: The Secretary Arrives:  Dillon Ripley and the Smithsonian Challenge; label: 5
title: reinventing the National Gallery:  Creating the East Building; label: 6
title: “What Hath Brown Wrought?”; label: 7
title: Presenting King Tut; label: 8
title: Trouble in Paradise:  The Light That Failed; label: 9
title: Exhibiting Strategies; label: 10
title: The Secretary Carries On: Consolidating Dillon Ripley’s Administration; label: 11
title: Minister of Culture:  Shaping Washington; label: 12
title: “Treasure Houses of Britain”:  The Anatomy of an Exhibition; label: 13
title: Campaigns and Conquests; label: 14
title: Goodbye Columbus:  Celebrating the Quincentenary; label: 15
title: Retirement Projects; title: Postscript; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index