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The Art Museum in Modern Times (Hardcover)
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The Art Museum in Modern Times (Hardcover)
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The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal
Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or
rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's
leadership, making him uniquely qualified to explore the ways in
which art museums have changed over the past century and examine
where they might be headed in the future. For this book, Saumarez
Smith has undertaken an odyssey to art museums across the globe.
From Tate Modern in London to the Benesse House Museum on the
Japanese island of Naoshima; from the Getty Center in Los Angeles
to the Museum of New and Old Art, a ferry-ride from Hobart in
Tasmania; from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the West Bund Museum
in Shanghai - he has visited them all, casting an acute eye on the
way the experience of art is shaped by the buildings that house it
and the organizing principles by which it is displayed. What has
changed over the past century? Where the public once visited
museums to be educated in art history, he argues, they are now more
likely to be in search of a private, aesthetic experience. Museum
displays that were automatically didactic, chronological and either
national or Western in viewpoint are now thematic and global. While
museums used to be invariably in city centres, they may now be in
remote locations, destinations of cultural pilgrimage. And where
architects once created neutral spaces in which to display art,
they now build spectacular architectural landmarks, stamping an
identity on run-down neighbourhoods and sparking regeneration
through cultural tourism. With 122 illustrations in colour
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