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

ISBN-13: 9781138555358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 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.

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.