Sculpture and the museum / edited by Christopher R. Marshall

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Contents

Pt. 1. Museums and the sculptor's legacy. The Gipsoteca of Possagno : from artist's studio to museum / Johannes Myssok ; The Pantheon, the university and the artist's bequest : the Flaxman Gallery at University College London / Pauline Ann Hoath ; Rodin : the construction of an image / Antoinette Le Normand-Romani -- pt. 2. Museum display and changing attitudes to the critical status of sculpture in museums. Adopting Moore and modernity in Toronto : controversy, reputation and intervention on display / Sarah Stanners ; Italian Renaissance sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : the early years / Marietta Cambareri ; The elephant in the room : George Grey Barnard's 'Struggle of the two natures in man' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Thayer Tolles ; Sculptures as museum models : Malvina Hoffman's 'Races of mankind' display at the Field Museum, Chicago / Marianne Kinkel ; Out of time and place : the recent history and curious double life of the Sultanganj Buddha / Suzanne MacLeod -- pt. 3. Designing display settings and the challenge of new sculpture. 'The finest sculpture gallery in the world!' : the rise and fall -and rise again -- of the Duveen Sculpture Galleries at Tate Britain / Christopher R. Marshall ; A grey universe : Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and The Unilever Series / Wouter Davidts ; Object to project : artists' interventions in museum collections / Khadija Carrol La

Summary

"Sculpture and the museum" offers the first in-depth account of the warying roles and meaning assigned to sculpture in museums and galleries during the modern period.

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2011

Type

Books

Physical description

xviii, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Topic

Art--Exhibition techniques

Sculpture galleries

Record ID

siris_sil_995330

Usage

CC0