Visiting the Art Museum

Visiting the Art Museum

Author: Laurene Krasny Brown

Publisher: Puffin

Published: 1992-06-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780140548204

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As a family wanders through an art museum, they see examples of various art styles from primitive through twentieth-century pop art.


How to Visit an Art Museum

How to Visit an Art Museum

Author: Johan Idema

Publisher: BIS Publishers

Published: 2014-10-06

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9789063693558

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Offers strategies for getting the most out of a visit to an art museum, covering museum etiquette as well as such topics as separating good from bad art, dealing with nudity in a museum, and appreciating portraiture.


How to Visit a Museum

How to Visit a Museum

Author: David Finn

Publisher:

Published: 1985-09-30

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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Tells how to plan a museum visit, gives advice on appreciating paintings, sculptures, and museum buildings themselves, and discusses special shows, permanent collections, and different types of museums.


The Art Museum in Modern Times

The Art Museum in Modern Times

Author: Charles Saumarez Smith

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500022437

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A compelling examination of the art museum from a renowned director, this sweeping book explores how architecture, vision, and funding have transformed art museums around the world over the past eighty years. How have art museums changed in the past century? Where are they headed in the future? Charles Saumarez Smith is uniquely qualified to answer these questions, having been at the helm of three major institutions over the course of his distinguished career. For The Art Museum in Modern Times, Saumarez Smith has undertaken an odyssey, visiting art museums across the globe and examining how the experience of art is shaped by the buildings that house it. His story starts with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the first museums to focus squarely on the art of the present rather than the past. When it opened in 1939, MoMA’s boldly modernist building represented a stark riposte to the neoclassicism of most earlier art museums. From there, Saumarez Smith investigates dozens of other museums, including the Tate Modern in London, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the West Bund Museum in Shanghai, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He explores our shifting reasons for visiting museums, changes to the way exhibits are organized and displayed, and the spectacular new architectural landmarks that have become destinations in their own right. Global in scope yet full of personal insight, this fully illustrated celebration of the modern art museum will appeal to art lovers, museum professionals, and museum goers alike.


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.


Anna at the Art Museum

Anna at the Art Museum

Author: Hazel Hutchins

Publisher: Annick Press

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1773210459

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Art is for everyone—even a bored little girl. Going to the Art Museum with her mom is no fun at all for Anna. Everything is old and boring and there are so many rules: Don’t Touch! Do Not Enter! Quiet! A vigilant guard keeps a close eye on the energetic little girl, but even so, Anna manages to set off an alarm and almost tip over a vase. A half-open door draws Anna’s attention, but the No Entry sign means yet again that it’s off-limits. This time, however, the guard surprises her by inviting her to go in. Here she finds a “secret workshop” where paintings are being cleaned and repaired. Staring out from one of the canvases is a girl who looks grumpy and bored—just like Anna herself. With the realization that art often imitates life, Anna discovers the sheer joy to be had from the paintings on the wall, especially those that reflect what is happening all around her. Filled with representations of paintings from many world-class galleries, this charming book is the perfect prelude to a child’s first visit to an art museum.


Teaching in the Art Museum

Teaching in the Art Museum

Author: Rika Burnham

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1606060589

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Teaching in the Art Museum investigates the mission, history, theory, practice, and future prospects of museum education. In this book Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee define and articulate a new approach to gallery teaching, one that offers groups of visitors deep and meaningful experiences of interpreting art works through a process of intense, sustained looking and thoughtfully facilitated dialogue.--[book cover].


Simon at the Art Museum

Simon at the Art Museum

Author: Christina Soontornvat

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1534437525

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A little boy visits an art museum for the first time in this fun, sweet picture book about first experiences and seeing things from new perspectives. Simon is having a great time at the museum with his parents. There are slippery, slidey floors! Pigeons flying around the reflecting pool! And cheesecake in the café! But they’re not really here for any of that. No, Simon has to look at art. And more art. So. Much. Art. There’s so much art that soon Simon needs to take a break and finds somewhere to sit. From his bench, he begins to notice how many different people are visiting the museum and the many different ways they react to the art they see. Some people are alone. Some are in groups. Some people smile. Some shake their heads. Some even shed a tear. And Simon is right in the center of it, watching until he’s inspired to give all the art another try. By the end of the day, he may even find a piece that can rival a slice of cheesecake!


The Personalization of the Museum Visit

The Personalization of the Museum Visit

Author: Seph Rodney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 135169586X

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The Personalization of the Museum Visit examines a fundamental shift in institutional behavior in museums located in the United States and the United Kingdom. Contending that art museums have moved toward a new paradigm of public engagement, it posits that modern museum visitors are treated as self-directed "clients", with the agency to make meaning for themselves. The book then considers how this change has come about, examining factors such as the onset of a new museology, an experience economy, and a marketing revolution. Drawing on extensive research undertaken at Britain’s Tate Modern, the book examines a range of issues, including visitor engagement, curatorial practice, and museum management. A visit experience that is customizable to the individual visitor, in which curators and marketers work together with visitor-clients to create an experience of personalized meaning, is, Rodney argues, rising in prevalence in the art museum field, but it is also being stymied by certain structural impediments. This book examines such obstacles, including institutional division of labor, long-standing conceptions, or misconceptions, of the museum’s mission, and the orientation of museums toward a certain conceptual model of their visitors. The Personalization of the Museum Visit is essential reading for scholars and students engaging with issues of visitor engagement, curatorial practice, and museum management. With a particular focus on the role of business interests and public policy, the book should also be of interest to those undertaking research in fields outside of museum and visitor studies.


Museum Trip

Museum Trip

Author: Barbara Lehman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2006-05-22

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0547770863

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Museums: filled with mysterious, magical art and curiosities? Or secrets? And what might happen if a boy suddenly became part of one of the mind-bending exhibits? Join the fun in Museum Trip, by Barbara Lehman, the author-illustrator of the Caldecott Honor–winning The Red Book.