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The Art Museum From Boull?e To Bilbao
Andrew McClellan
University of California Press
January 2008
On Sale: January 2, 2008
364 pages
ISBN: 0520251261
EAN: 9780520251267
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"Andrew McClellan's well-conceived, thoughtfully argued book
provides a much-needed history of the art museum as well as
an astute assessment of critical issues facing museums
today. There has been a pressing need for a synthetic,
even-handed overview like this one. It will find a large
readership among those concerned with museums, art history,
and cultural policy, and I predict it will be widely used in
courses in museum and curatorial studies."--Martha Ward,
author of Pissarro, Neo-impressionism and the Spaces of the
Avant-Garde "The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao is extremely
important to the growing field of museum studies. It will
make an excellent text and will also be important to museum
professionals, who must be aware of the complexity of the
critical issues it covers. It is the only book that
addresses museum architecture, ideals and missions,
collecting and display, restitution and repatriation,
commercialism, and the public."--Harriet F. Senie, author of
The Tilted Arc Controversy: Dangerous Precedent? "The increasing number of people interested in the history
of museums have benefited greatly from Andrew McClellan's
contributions over the past two decades. In this exemplary
volume, McClellan summarizes and extends his perspectives on
museums as institutions 'of hope and aspiration' as he
establishes a much needed context for the rhetoric of
celebration and critique emanating from within and without
these organizations. It is a useful as well as an important
book and one that will be read by many--students and lay
public alike--as they attempt to make sense of these
institutions and the sometimes conflicting accounts of their
purpose and programs."--Michael Conforti, Director of the
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute "Combining powerful critique with a grounded utopianism,
Andrew McClellan dissects the art museum's past in order to
identify its emancipatory potential for the future. The
result is a tour de force that reinvigorates our sense of
why art museums matter. This is a book that will leave its
mark on debates about the social role of museums for some
time to come."--Tony Bennett, Director, ESRC Centre for
Research on Socio-cultural Change "With its long historical view of ongoing controversies and
debates, The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao represents a
much-needed contribution to the discussion of the role of
museums in contemporary society. Museum professionals,
scholars, and lay readers alike will find much to ponder in
its pages.--Alan Wallach, author of Exhibiting
Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States "Timely and topical, The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
is a comprehensive study of the evolution of the art museum
as a social institution. Andrew McClellan's clear-eyed and
insightful analysis places key issues faced by museums today
in historical perspective and gives us a better
understanding of current debates about museums and their
place in society. Combining a deep knowledge of history and
critical theory with an understanding of practice, this text
makes a significant contribution to museum studies and
should be required reading for museum professionals and
academics alike."--Christa Clarke, Curator, The Newark Museum
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