Culture Factory - Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum

The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum examines museum design using international examples from Western Europe, China, Brazil and the USA. Written accessibly, it argues that the development of the art museum since the mid-1970s has involved the deliberate blurring of boundaries between different categories of art.

List of contents

Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: How Did we Get Here?; Chapter Two: Making Sense of Industrial Space; Chapter Three: Museums and Architectural Icons; Chapter Four: Landscapes in the Vicinity of Art; Notes; Further Reading; Index

About the author

Richard J. Williams is Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. Among his most recent books are Sex and Buildings (2013), Why Cities Look the Way They Do (2019) and Reyner Banham Revisited (2021).

Summary

The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum examines museum design using international examples from Western Europe, China, Brazil and the USA. Written accessibly, it argues that the development of the art museum since the mid-1970s has involved the deliberate blurring of boundaries between different categories of art.

Additional text

‘Richard J. Williams's brief but enjoyable The Culture Factory critically explores how art museums went from places of art appreciation to spaces of consumption, media, money, and entertainment over the last fifty years.’ – A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Product details

• Authors: Richard J. Williams
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781848223974
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-397-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: New Directions in Contemporary Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Architectural structure & design, ART / Museum Studies, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Architectural structure and design, contemporary-art museum;museum architecture;museum design