National Galleries: The Art of Making Nations

ISBN-13: 9781138182233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 274 str.

Simon Knell

Opis

National Galleries looks at national art museums globally and considers how – as pieces of architecture, curated spaces and collections of artworks – they entangle art and nation. Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces? How are national galleries involved in the construction of national art? This is a book that travels the world and considers how art is made to perform differently in each place. It is a book about looking and thinking afresh.

O autorze

Simon Knell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies, UK.