The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and DevelopmentAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011 - 318 pages Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by Pedro Lorente in this new and expanded edition of his groundbreaking 1998 study, Cathedrals of Urban Modernity. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented. The first part of the book examines the paradigm of the Musée des Artistes Vivants in Paris and its equivalents in the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century. The second part, consisting of entirely new material, takes the story from 1930 to the present. An epilogue reviews recent museum developments in the last decades. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
The Parisian Musée du Luxembourg as a Paradigm in the Nineteenth Century | 15 |
The Origin of the Musée des Artistes Vivants in Paris | 17 |
The First Emulators and Alternatives to the Luxembourg | 39 |
Unresolved Dilemmas in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century | 65 |
Utopian ideas and Experiments at the Turn of the Century | 95 |
The Role of the MoMA of New York as the International Model of the Twentieth Century | 123 |
Foundations and Context of the MoMAs Creation | 127 |
MoMAS Transition to Adulthood Amidst War and Confrontations | 163 |
The MoMA as an International Role Model During the Cold War Triumph and Opposition | 199 |
The Pompidou Centre A CounterModel Which Ends Up Imitating MoMA | 231 |
Topographic Review of the New Museums of Contemporary Art at the Turn of the Millennium | 259 |
Epilogue | 293 |
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