The Invention of the American Art Museum

The Invention of the American Art Museum

Author: Kathleen Curran

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1606064789

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American art museums share a mission and format that differ from those of their European counterparts, which often have origins in aristocratic collections. This groundbreaking work recounts the fascinating story of the invention of the modern American art museum, starting with its roots in the 1870s in the craft museum type, which was based on London’s South Kensington (now the Victoria and Albert) Museum. At the turn of the twentieth century, American planners grew enthusiastic about a new type of museum and presentation that was developed in Northern Europe, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. Called Kulturgeschichte (cultural history) museums, they were evocative displays of regional history. American trustees, museum directors, and curators found that the Kulturgeschichte approach offered a variety of transformational options in planning museums, classifying and displaying objects, and broadening collecting categories, including American art and the decorative arts. Leading institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, adopted and developed crucial aspects of the Kulturgeschichte model. By the 1930s, such museum plans and exhibition techniques had become standard practice at museums across the country.


Temple of Invention

Temple of Invention

Author: Charles J. Robertson

Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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This richly illustrated volume traces the history of this landmark building, documenting its varied functions and evolving architecture with rarely seen photographs and architectural plans.


America's Art

America's Art

Author: Theresa J. Slowik

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2006-04-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780810955325

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Celebrating the reopening of the newly restored Smithsonian American Art Museum, a premier collection of American art features more than 250 reproductions of great works of American painting, sculpture, folk art, and photography, by such artists as Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Nam June Paik, and other luminaries.


The Civil War and American Art

The Civil War and American Art

Author: Eleanor Jones Harvey

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-12-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0300187335

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Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.


The Great American Hall of Wonders

The Great American Hall of Wonders

Author: Claire Perry

Publisher: Giles

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904832973

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"This report features specific examples where the Battelle name and logo were seen throughout the duration of the show and includes metrics for credit line impressions"--Executive summary


America's Art Museums

America's Art Museums

Author: Suzanne Loebl

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780393320060

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A tour of America's most notable museums is also a history of the nation's art that highlights each location's top works while discussing the backgrounds of each building and featured piece of art.


Representing Africa in American Art Museums

Representing Africa in American Art Museums

Author: Kathleen Bickford Berzock

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780295989617

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"The first comprehensive book to focus on the history of African art in American art museums. ... Thirteen essays present the institutional biographies of African art collections in the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Barnes Foundation, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Primitive Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indiana University of Art Museum, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the University of Iowa Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Menil Collection, and the National Museum of African Art."--back cover.


This Present Moment

This Present Moment

Author: Mary Savig

Publisher: Giles

Published: 2022-06-21

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781913875268

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A highly illustrated,important volume inspired by the way craft artists have unitedduring the COVID pandemic and engaged in artistic conversations about race,gender, and inclusivity. During thesummer of 2020, the space outside the Renwick Gallery--the Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum's dedicated museum for contemporary craft and decorative arts--becamehome to a new discussion about racial justice on Black Lives Matter Plaza. Thecurators at the Renwick Gallery felt the need to align themselves with what wasgoing on right outside the Gallery's door, the organizing rationale forunderstanding the objects presented in this volume, many of which are newacquisitions. The title istaken from Alicia Eggert's 2019-2020 eponymous neon work, and the 85 objects inthe main plates section lead the reader from the idea of shelter, throughlayers of expanding spaces to the vast expanses of the universe. The volume looksat contemporary American craft "in the whirlwind of now" revealingpossibilities for contemporary makers to respond to a more empathetic future.


American Louvre

American Louvre

Author: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Publisher: Giles

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Tells the colorful story of the Renwick Gallery's initial glory, decline, and rebirth over a period of 160 years


Exhibiting Blackness

Exhibiting Blackness

Author: Bridget R. Cooks

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9781613760062

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"In Exhibiting Blackness, art historian Bridget R. Cooks analyzes the curatorial strategies, challenges, and critical receptions of the most significant museum exhibitions of African American art. Tracing two dominant methodologies used to exhibit art by African Americans--an ethnographic approach that focuses more on artists than their art, and a recovery narrative aimed at correcting past omissions--Cooks exposes the issues involved in exhibiting cultural difference that continue to challenge art history, historiography, and American museum exhibition practices. By further examining the unequal and often contested relationship between African American artists, curators, and visitors, she provides insight into the complex role of art museums and their accountability to the cultures they represent."--