From the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Tate in London, this book examines the ways in which major international museums, galleries and arts-funding bodies address their roles in relation to wider cultural and political issues such as education, public accountability and avant-gardism. A series of case studies provide information about the origins and development of a selection of significant art institutions, and a critique of display and management within cultural organizations. It also sets out the major debates in this field, including the fundamental question as to what actually consititutes an institution.
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This review is from: Art Apart: Art Institutions and Ideology Across England and North America (Paperback)
As so often with such collections, this book seems less than the sum of its parts, suggesting a comprhensive theorization of exhibiting institutions but prioviding a compendium of essays the preoccupations of which already seem dated. Some transcend these limitations, such as the exploration of the founding of England's National Gallery, others seem simply plodding (the history of the V & A), yet others make 'radical' sounding gestures that seem to amount to very little in the end (the account of the Arts Council). The scholarship is generally good, but is sometimes dangerously sloppy - as in the last two mentioned contributions.
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