A Brief History of the Detroit Museum of Art and Its Collections
Author: Detroit Museum of Art
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 96
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Author: Detroit Museum of Art
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Published: 1902
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Publisher: Legare Street Press
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher: Detroit Institute of Arts
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey Abt
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780814328415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Detroit Institute of Arts is one of America's largest and oldest municipal art museums. However, even as the museum grew into a distinguished collection, there were threats of closure. The DIA has walked a financial tightrope since it opened just over a century ago, and was nearly closed by government funding cuts in the 1970s and 1990s. Now Jeffrey Abt tells how the DIA has had to struggle to maintain its fine art collection with barely enough income to remain open. A Museum on the Verge goes behind the scenes at the DIA to disclose the political, economic, and social forces that shaped the museum from its founding to the present day. Drawing on new archival research, Abt reveals that the growing discrepancy between the museum's size and its operating budget was the result of a century of ad hoc solutions to institutional problems that left the DIA vulnerable to annual income losses -- especially reductions of government funding. He also explains its complex relations with private and government entities and delineates the integral role of the museum's support group, the Founders Society. Abt's account is supplemented by a wealth of material, including legal documents and numerical data taken at five-year intervals from the 1880s through 2000 that is presented in both tables and graphs. The data, which comprehensively survey vital statistics such as attendance, collections growth, and finances, provide a rich resource for comparative research on other museums. As a case study of a prominent public institution, A Museum on the Verge offers an invaluable research model for scholars and museum professionals alike.
Author: Jeffrey Abt
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 3319452193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and political development of Detroit, giving a history of the city as well as of the institution, and providing a model of contextual institutional history. Abt describes how the Detroit Institute of Arts became the fifth largest art museum in America, from its founding as a private non-profit corporation in 1885 to its transformation into a municipal department in 1919, through the subsequent decades of extraordinary collections and facilities growth coupled with the repeated setbacks of government funding cuts during economic downturns. Detroit's 2013 bankruptcy underscored the nearly 130 years of fiscal missteps and false assumptions that rendered the museum particularly vulnerable to the monetary power of a global art investment community eager to capitalize on the city's failures and its creditors' demands. This is a remarkable and important contribution to many fields, including non-profit management and economics, cultural policy, museum and urban history, and the histories of both the Detroit Institute of Arts and the city of Detroit itself. Despite the museum's unique history, its story offers valuable lessons for anyone concerned about the future of art museums in the United States and abroad.
Author: Detroit Institute of Arts
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William H. Peck
Publisher: Great Lakes Books
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780814323991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Detroit Museum of Art
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Detroit. Detroit Institute of Arts
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 210
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