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Idea of the Museum- Philosophical, Artistic, and Political Questions
| Author: | Aagaard-Mogensen, Lars | |
| Year: | 1989 | |
| Pages: | 248 | |
| ISBN: | 0-88946-334-4 978-0-88946-334-9 | |
| Price: | $179.95 | |
A collection of fifteen essays addressing the nature and purpose in today's society of the museum: "one of the few cultural institutions with an indisputable future," a cultural force in itself that exhibits general characteristics of human understanding and values.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Why Preservation?
Hubert G. Alexander
An Ethnographic Museum Design
Rolf Gilberg
A Living Musuem
Else Mogensen
The Art Museum and the Status of the Arts
Teddy Brunius
MUSEeums
John Fisher
Why Exhibit Works of Art?
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
The Concept of the Art Museum
Monroe C. Beardsley
The Idea of the Museum
Göran Schildt
The Musuem: Past, Present and Future
E.H. Gombrich
The Musuem Today
Harold Rosenberg
Museums or Mausoleums
Charles Altieri
The Idea of an Art Museum
Joseph Margolis
Old Junk and New Money
Stephen Leacock
The Museum World
Lars Aagaard-Mogensen
Acknowledgments
Bibliographic Note
Index
Why Preservation?
Hubert G. Alexander
An Ethnographic Museum Design
Rolf Gilberg
A Living Musuem
Else Mogensen
The Art Museum and the Status of the Arts
Teddy Brunius
MUSEeums
John Fisher
Why Exhibit Works of Art?
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
The Concept of the Art Museum
Monroe C. Beardsley
The Idea of the Museum
Göran Schildt
The Musuem: Past, Present and Future
E.H. Gombrich
The Musuem Today
Harold Rosenberg
Museums or Mausoleums
Charles Altieri
The Idea of an Art Museum
Joseph Margolis
Old Junk and New Money
Stephen Leacock
The Museum World
Lars Aagaard-Mogensen
Acknowledgments
Bibliographic Note
Index