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The People's Galleries
Giles Waterfield
其他書名
Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914
出版
Yale University Press
, 2015
主題
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Art / History / General
Art / Art & Politics
Business & Economics / Museum Administration & Museology
History / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Modern / 19th Century
History / Social History
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
ISBN
0300209843
9780300209846
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c2AOogEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham were immensely popular and attracted enthusiastic audiences.
The People's Galleries
traces the rise of art museums in Britain through World War I, focusing on the phenomenon of municipal galleries. This richly illustrated book argues that these regional museums represented a new type of institution: an art gallery for a working-class audience, appropriate for the rapidly expanding cities and shaped by liberal ideals. As their broad appeal weakened with the new century, they adapted and became more conventional. Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art