Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts

Informationen zum Autor J. Pedro Lorente is Professor of Art History at the University of Saragossa, Spain Klappentext "This book reviews their changing interactions in many different types of cities since the Enlightenment! or even before! going back to the etymological origins of museums and monuments in classical antiquity"-- Zusammenfassung Museums and public art have traditionally taken significantly different approaches to customer engagement, but throughout history they have also worked together in some urban contexts, notably as landmarks of so-called cultural districts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Museum borders and disciplinary boundaries 1. Art districts in the visual culture of the Enlightenment and Romanticism 2. Statues of great artists erected near museums 3. High culture on urban hills: The mouseion ideal as city crown 4. Modernity expands into green fields 5. Open air museums of art! an urban phenomenon 6. Dialectics of museums/public art articulation at the turn of the millennium

Product details

• Authors: J. Lorente
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2018
• EAN: 9780815359579
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5957-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / General, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies