TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuno,James
AU  - Lowry,Glenn D
AU  - Lowry,Glenn D.
AU  - MacGregor,Neil
AU  - Montebello,Philippe de
AU  - Walsh,John
AU  - Wood,James N.
AU  - de Montebello,Philippe
AU  - d’Harnoncourt,Anne
TI  - Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust 
SN  - 9780691188683
AV  - N430 .W48 2006eb
U1  - 708 22
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Art museums
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Public relations
KW  - ART / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ADAPT
KW  - Adage
KW  - Agnes Gund
KW  - Andres Serrano
KW  - Anne d'Harnoncourt
KW  - Anthony van Dyck
KW  - Antiquities trade
KW  - Aphorism
KW  - Art criticism
KW  - Art exhibition
KW  - Art history
KW  - Art in America
KW  - Art museum
KW  - Art
KW  - Auction
KW  - Bernard Berenson
KW  - Boredom
KW  - British Institution
KW  - British Library
KW  - Business ethics
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Caspar David Friedrich
KW  - Censure
KW  - Charles Saatchi
KW  - Chris Ofili
KW  - Cubism
KW  - Culture war
KW  - Curator
KW  - Damien Hirst
KW  - Distrust
KW  - Elliot Eisner
KW  - Emerging technologies
KW  - Enron
KW  - Equal opportunity
KW  - Facsimile
KW  - Fraud
KW  - George Soros
KW  - Gerhard Richter
KW  - German art
KW  - Glenn D. Lowry
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Headline
KW  - High Renaissance
KW  - Iconoclasm
KW  - Impressionism
KW  - In the Car
KW  - Institution
KW  - Iris Murdoch
KW  - Islamic art
KW  - J. Paul Getty Museum
KW  - James Abbott McNeill Whistler
KW  - James Cuno
KW  - James Elkins (art historian)
KW  - Kirk Varnedoe
KW  - Layoff
KW  - Leonardo da Vinci
KW  - Life insurance
KW  - Looting
KW  - Masaccio
KW  - Meyer Schapiro
KW  - Michael Baxandall
KW  - Michael Kimmelman
KW  - Modern art
KW  - Museum
KW  - National Gallery of Art
KW  - Neil MacGregor
KW  - New Museum
KW  - Obscenity
KW  - Painting (Blue Star)
KW  - Paul Gauguin
KW  - Pessimism
KW  - Pornography
KW  - Private collection
KW  - Public sphere
KW  - Putto
KW  - R. G. Collingwood
KW  - Rainer Maria Rilke
KW  - Renaissance art
KW  - Richard Benefield
KW  - Richard Meier
KW  - Roberta Smith
KW  - Scenic design
KW  - Sense of Place
KW  - Sex scandal
KW  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - Stephen Greenblatt
KW  - Still life
KW  - Tax
KW  - The Great Exhibition
KW  - The New York Review of Books
KW  - The New York Times
KW  - Thomas Bernhard
KW  - Thomas Krens
KW  - Tintoretto
KW  - Titian
KW  - Trade fair
KW  - Vatican Museums
KW  - Walter Benjamin
KW  - Western painting
KW  - Work of art
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; A Pentecost in Trafalgar Square --; The Object of Art Museums --; Pictures, Tears, Lights, and Seats --; The Authorities of the American Art Museum --; A Deontological Approach to Art Museums and the Public Trust --; Art Museums, Inspiring Public Trust --; Round Table Discussion --; Index --; Photography Credits; restricted access
N2  - During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and ambition. They came to be seen as new civic centers: on the one hand as places of entertainment, leisure, and commerce, on the other as socially therapeutic institutions. But museums were also criticized for everything from elitism to looting or illegally exporting works from other countries, to exhibiting works offensive to the public taste. Whose Muse? brings together five directors of leading American and British art museums who together offer a forward-looking alternative to such prevailing views. While their approaches differ, certain themes recur: As museums have become increasingly complex and costly to manage, and as government support has waned, the temptation is great to follow policies driven not by a mission but by the market. However, the directors concur that public trust can be upheld only if museums continue to see their core mission as building collections that reflect a nation's artistic legacy and providing informed and unfettered access to them. The book, based on a lecture series of the same title held in 2000-2001 by the Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors, also includes an introduction by Cuno and a fascinating--and surprisingly frank--roundtable discussion among the participating directors. A rare collection of sustained reflections by prominent museum directors on the current state of affairs in their profession, this book is without equal. It will be read widely not only by museum professionals, trustees, critics, and scholars, but also by the art-loving public itself
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691188683?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691188683
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691188683/original
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