Museums and modernity : art galleries and the making of modern culture / Nick Prior.
Alternate Title(s):
Art galleries and the making of modern culture
Published / Created:
New York, NY : Berg, 2002.
Physical Description:
xii, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-245) and index.
Contents:
Part I museums and modernity in Europe and England -- Introduction -- From court to state: the emergence of national art museums in continental Europe -- 'the peculiarities of the English': the formation of the National Gallery, London -- Part II art, society and the birth of the National Gallery of Scotland -- Stirrings of the modern: art, civil society and the Scottish Enlightenment -- The birth of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1800-59 -- The high within and the low without: the social production of aesthetic space in the National Gallery of Scotland, 1859-70.
Subject Terms:
Art museums -- Europe -- History. | Art museums -- Great Britain -- History. | Art and state -- Great Britain. | Art and state -- Europe.