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List of illustrations

  • Baptism Altarpiece
  • Noli Me Tangere
  • The Pistoia Santa Trinità Altarpiece
  • The Virgin and Child
  • Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
  • Kneeling Angel
  • Angel with the Superscription
  • Fragment of an Attic Black-figure Dinos: animals
  • Fragment of a Black-figure Amphora: Open-mouthed head of a lion
  • Fragment of an Attic Black-figure Segment Kylix. Head of a man, possibly Dionysos
  • Fragment of an Attic Red-figure Cup, Side A: lower part of the himation and chiton folds of a figure
  • Studies for The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien (Saint, Mother, and Proconsul)
  • Studies for The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien (Lictors, Stone Thrower, and Spectator)
  • The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien
  • Plaster Cupid
  • Still Life with a Plaster Cupid
  • The Abduction of Europa
  • The Abduction of Europa
  • Lion Attacking a Horse
  • Lion Attacking a Horse
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Ground floor of the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Visitor half-crouching and crouching
  • The Blinding of Samson
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Gallery for late-nineteenth-century paintings
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Gallery with paintings by James Ensor and the Symbolists
  • Artist in His Studio
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, rear view of the Allerton Building
  • The Art Institute of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute, aerial view
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
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James Cuno (Editor)
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
OVER THE COURSE of ten months, from October 2001 through June 2002, the Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors and the Harvard University Art Museums, of which at the time I was director, organized a series of lectures on the subject of the public’s regard for and trust in art museums. The participants and I...
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
OVER THE YEARS at meetings of the Association of Art Museum Directors, around the seminar table at the Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors, or in one or another of our offices, we, the authors of this book, found ourselves frequently discussing the nature and foundation of the public purpose of art museums and wondering why art museums, which are more popular than ever before, are also more...
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
I WOULD LIKE to address some of the problems related to the kinds of responsibilities that we, as directors, curators, or trustees of public collections, have with regard to our collections. Specifically, how, for whom, and to what purpose do we present our collections? What are our obligations to the public? What to the artist? What to truth, to beauty, or—more prosaically—to the...
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
WE HAVE ALL heard stories of people going to museums in the days following September 11, just to be there, quietly, safe in the company of things that are beautiful and impossibly fragile, yet that have lasted for centuries through war and tumult to lay claim still on our imaginations. I was reminded of Neil MacGregor’s story of London’s National Gallery during the Blitz....
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
JAMES CUNO SAYS something in his essay that I want to repeat: In the end, this is what our visitors most want from us: to have access to works of art in order to change them...
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
OUR SUBJECT IS “Art Museums and the Public Trust.” I am turning my attention to the American art museum and primarily those with a substantial permanent collection. The contents, strengths, and weaknesses of these collections define the museums of each of my fellow contributors just as they certainly provide the fundamental identity of the Art Institute of Chicago. However, beyond the...
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
THERE ARE MANY ways to explore the question of art museums and public trust. I take as my point of departure the American art museum, though my comments may, in a general sense, apply to European art museums as well. But it is important to remember that American art museums are primarily private entities that are accorded public status, whereas European museums are, for the most part, civic and...
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Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
I HAVE STRUCTURED my discussion on the issue before us—on the art museum and the public trust—in two parts. First, there is an introduction in which I give my own interpretation of the term public trust in order to make sense of the second part, in which I propose to examine the state of art museums today and consider how current trends may be affecting that trust.
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