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• Title:The art museum in modern times / Charles Saumarez Smith.
  
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• Author/Creator:Saumarez Smith, Charles, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
  ©2021
  

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  • Call Number: NA6695 .S36 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art museums--History--20th century.
  Art museums--History--21st century.
  Art museum architecture--History--20th century.
  Art museum architecture--History--21st century.
  Museum techniques--History--20th century.
  Museum techniques--History--21st century.
  Art museums--Social aspects.
  
• Description:271 pages : illustrations (color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary: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. 0 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. 0 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780500022436 hardback
  0500022437 hardback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Modern Museum
  Museum of Modern Art, New York (1939)
  Louisiana, Humlebæk (1958)
  Guggenheim Museum, New York (1959)
  Castelvecchio Museum, Verona (1964)
  Whitney Museum, New York (1966)
  New National Gallery, Berlin (1968)
  Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Sao Paulo (1968)
  Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford (1968)
  Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (1972)
  Centre Pompidou, Paris (1977)
  Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (1977)
  Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (1978)
  East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1978)
  2. Postmodern Museum
  Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1984)
  Saatchi Gallery, London (1985)
  Musee d'Orsay, Paris (1986)
  Menil Collection, Houston (1987)
  Louvre Pyramid, Paris (1989)
  Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London (1991)
  Benesse House Museum, Naoshima (1992)
  Getty Center, Los Angeles (1997)
  Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (1997)
  Beyeler Foundation, Basel (1997)
  3. Museums for the New Millennium
  Tate Modern, London (2000)
  Ondaatje Wing, National Portrait Gallery, London (2000)
  Neue Galerie, New York (2001)
  Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY (2003)
  Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004)
  21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2004)
  Kolumba, Cologne (2007)
  Neues Museum, Berlin (2009)
  Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire (2011)
  Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011)
  4. Museum Reinvented
  MONA, Hobart (2011)
  Louvre Museum, Lens (2012)
  Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2012)
  Whitney Museum, New York (2015)
  Broad, Los Angeles (2015)
  Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London (2016)
  Louvre Abu Dhabi (2017)
  Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018)
  Muzeum Susch, Susch (2019)
  West Bund Museum, Shanghai (2019)
  5. Key Issues
  role of the client
  role of the architect
  rise of the private museum
  morality of wealth
  end of history
  changing characteristics of works of art
  Globalization
  digital world
  search for the sacred
  Audience expectations
  CONCLUSION.