The Private Collector's Museum: Public Good Versus Private Gain

ISBN-13: 9780367728861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Georgina Walker

Opis

Connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy, and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cultural arbiters of global distinction.

Spis treści

Introduction: An introduction to the private collector’s museum

Part I: Overview

1 Setting the foundation: Self-glorification is a small price to pay for philanthropy

2 Private collecting: collecting in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Part II: The private collector’s museum

3 Where house and art museum converge

4 Subverting the notion of the house museum

5 The emergence of the stand-alone museum: Museum Folkwang, Hagen (1902– 1921) and Essen, Germany (1922)

Part III: The (re)emergence of the single patron collection museum

6 The German model of the private-public art museum

7 The private-public collection museum: Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2009) and Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2004) Germany

8 In defiance of the monumental museum: Menil Collection, Houston, USA (1987)

9 The new museum and its creator’s grand plan: The Broad, Los Angeles, USA (2015)

Conclusions: Evolving philanthropic conventions

O autorze

Georgina S. Walker is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She teaches in Art History, Curatorial and Museum Studies and her research interests include the recent and fast-growing number of private, state and international museums that have emerged in China and the Gulf Region.