Museums and modernity : art galleries and the making of modern culture / Nick Prior.

Author/creator Prior, Nick
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.
Descriptionxii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Cover title Museums & modernity
Portion of title Art galleries and the making of modern culture
SeriesLeisure, consumption and culture
Leisure, consumption, and culture. ^A568669
Contents Part I: Museums and modernity in Europe and England -- Introduction -- From court to state: the emergence of national art museums in continental Europe -- 'The peculiarities of the English': the formation of the National Gallery, London -- Part II: Art, society and the birth of the National Gallery of Scotland -- Stirrings of the modern: art, civil society and the Scottish Enlightenment -- The birth of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1800-59 -- The high within and the low without: the social production of aesthetic space in the National Gallery of Scotland, 1859-70.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-245) and index.
LCCN 2002002816
ISBN1859735037
ISBN1859735088 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks N1010 .P75 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold