Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Title | Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Peter C. Sutton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN | 9789061791140 |
Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Title | Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN | 1588392406 |
The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700
Title | The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Debra Cashion |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 631 |
Release | 2017-08-21 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004354123 |
An anthology of 42 essays by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of the late medieval and early modern periods in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, written in tribute to Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
Deaccessioning and Its Discontents
Title | Deaccessioning and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gammon |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 445 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0262345218 |
The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a series of deaccession events in Britain and the United States that range from the disastrous to the beneficial, and proposes a typology of principles to guide future deaccessions. Gammon describes the liquidation of the British Royal Collections after Charles I's execution—when masterworks were used as barter to pay the king's unpaid bills—as establishing a precedent for future deaccessions. He recounts, among other episodes, U.S. Civil War veterans who tried to reclaim their severed limbs from museum displays; the 1972 “Hoving affair,” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a number of works to pay for a Velázquez portrait; and Brandeis University's decision (later reversed) to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of contemporary art. An appendix provides the first extensive listing of notable deaccessions since the seventeenth century. Gammon ultimately argues that vibrant museums must evolve, embracing change, loss, and reinvention.
Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Walter A. Liedtke |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 1109 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Painters |
ISBN | 1588392732 |
Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Title | Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |