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Capital Culture - Neil Harris

Capital Culture

J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

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Buch | Softcover
616 Seiten
2016
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-43446-9 (ISBN)
CHF 44,90 inkl. MwSt
American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown's achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown's showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster.
Harris describes Brown's major role in the birth of blockbuster exhibitions, such as the King Tut show of the late 1970s and the National Gallery's immensely successful Treasure Houses of Britain, which helped inspire similarly popular exhibitions around the country. He recounts Brown's role in creating the award-winning East Building by architect I. M. Pei and the subsequent renovation of the West building. Harris also explores the politics of exhibition planning, describing Brown's courtship of corporate leaders, politicians, and international dignitaries. In this monumental book Harris brings to life this dynamic era and exposes the creation of Brown's impressive but costly legacy, one that changed the face of American museums forever.

Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History and Art History Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His books include The Artist in American Society; Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum; Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America; and The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 15 x 23 mm
Gewicht 879 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-43446-X / 022643446X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-43446-9 / 9780226434469
Zustand Neuware
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