Cathedrals of Urban Modernity - Creation of the First Museums of Contemporary Art

List of contents

1. New Kinds of Museums in the Nineteenth Century: the ‘Cathedrals of Urban Modernity’. 2. State Politics of Art Patronage in Paris: the Luxembourg Museum. 3. London Galleries Founded by Private Sponsors of Victorian Art. 4. Galleries of (Greater) Nationalism: the German Countries, the Slavonic Nations and Italy. 5. The Expanding Wave: Parallel Endeavours in Other Western Cities. 6. Epilogue: the ‘Coming of Age’ of Museums of Contemporary Art and the Weight of the Museological Legacy.

About the author

J. Pedro Lorente

Summary

First published in 1998, this volume explores the expanding wave of a new kind of museums of contemporary art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: J. Pedro Lorente, Lorente J. Pedro
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138321472
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32147-2
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, ART / General, ART / History / General, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies