Museums and modernity : art galleries and the making of modern culture / Nick Prior.
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| Other title: | Museums & modernity. Art galleries and the making of modern culture. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2002.
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| Series: | Leisure, consumption, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Museums and modernity in Europe and England
- Introduction
- From court to state: the emergence of national art museums in continental Europe
- 'The peculiarities of the English': the formation of the National Gallery, London
- Part II: Art, society and the birth of the National Gallery of Scotland
- Stirrings of the modern: art, civil society and the Scottish Enlightenment
- The birth of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1800-59
- The high within and the low without: the social production of aesthetic space in the National Gallery of Scotland, 1859-70.