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The Museum of French Monuments 1795-1816 - 'Killing art to make history' (Paperback)
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The Museum of French Monuments 1795-1816 - 'Killing art to make history' (Paperback)
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
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The first volume in two centuries on Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of
French Monuments in Paris, this study presents a comprehensive
picture of a seminal project of French Revolutionary cultural
policy, one crucial to the development of the modern museum
institution. The book offers a new critical perspective of the
Museum's importance and continuing relevance to the history of
material culture and collecting, through juxtaposition with its
main opponent, the respected connoisseur and theorist Quatremere de
Quincy. This innovative approach highlights the cultural and
intellectual context of the debate, situating it in the dilemmas of
emerging modernity, the idea of nationhood, and changing attitudes
to art and its histories. Open only from 1795 to 1816, the Museum
of French Monuments was at once popular and controversial. The
salvaged sculptures and architectural fragments that formed its
collection presented the first chronological panorama of French
art, which drew the public; it also drew the ire of critics, who
saw the Museum as an offense against the monuments' artistic
integrity. Underlying this localized conflict were emerging ideas
about the nature of art and its relationship to history, which
still define our understanding of notions of heritage, monument,
and the museum.
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