Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums - An Anthropology of Donations

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I Motivations; 1 The self-enhancement motive; 2 Augmenting social status; 3 The investment motive; 4 Transmission of knowledge; Part II Museums; 5 Collection or museum; 6 Museums in east asia; 7 Gifts to museums in taiwan; 8 Founding a collection museum; 9 Museums and the imagined community; Part III Private collectors; 10 Early modern art collectors;11 Donations by collecting artists; 12 Asian art and culture; Conclusions on donations

About the author

Paul van der Grijp is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology of the University of Lyon and a former researcher of the Centre for Research and Documentation of Oceania in Marseilles and the Institute of East Asia Studies in Lyon. He conducted lengthy periods of fieldwork in the South Pacific and East-Asia.

Summary

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.

Product details

• Authors: Paul van der Grijp
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032813219
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281321-9
• No. of pages: 8
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / Museum Studies, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / Business Aspects, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Art: Financial Aspects, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections