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James Cuno (Editor)
Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
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Abduction of Europa (Rembrandt), 78, 79, 79–80
access, 21, 41–43, 45, 52, 63, 73, 109–10, 112, 116, 190–93
acquisitions, 28, 52, 107, 182
admission fees, 186–93
Adoration (Masaccio), 38
advertising campaigns, 55, 132–33, 167–68. See also media attention
advertising industry, 111
Agnew’s Gallery, 92
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince, 28
Amasis Painter, 59–61, 60
American, The (James), 142
American Association of Museums, 18–19, 133, 155–56, 166
American Museum of Natural History (New York), 162
American Revolution, 106
Ancient Szechuan (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 178
Angel Holding the Superscription (Bernini), 55–56, 56
antiquities, theft of, 12–13, 197
archaeological sites, 153
architecture, museum, 88–91, 116–20, 126, 137, 140–41
Arendt, Hannah, 142
Armory Show, 123
Arnold, Matthew, 50
Art Institute of Chicago, 116–17, 117–18, 123, 174, 186, 188
artists’ intentions, 32–33, 35, 38, 44–45
Association of Art Museum Directors, 12
attendance, museum, 17, 41–42, 98, 131, 157–58, 182–83
audio tours, 94, 109, 184, 198
authenticity, 22, 144, 151–53, 161, 163, 193, 195. See also reproductions
authority, 21–22, 73, 103–27, 131, 136, 151, 154–55
Autumn Rhythm (Pollock), 185
Bamiyan Buddhas (Afghanistan), 152–53
Banking and Financial Services Committee (U.S. House), 12
Baptism of Christ (Niccolô di Pietro Gerini), 28–30, 29
Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 103–4, 124
Barry, E. M., 92
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 120
Baxandall, Michael, 20
beauty, 49–50, 63, 114, 123
Beazley, John, 60
Benjamin, Walter, 120
Bennett, William J., 11
Berenson, Bernard, 157
Bernhard, Thomas, 141
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 55–57
Blinding of Samson, The (Rembrandt), 97, 98
blockbuster exhibitions. See temporary exhibitions
board members. See trustees
Bourscheidt, Randall, 106
Bowie, David, 14
bozzetti, 55–57
brand names/branding, 16, 174–75
Braque, Georges, 69
Brazil: Body and Soul (Guggenheim Museum), 135–36
Brenson, Michael, 22
British Art Center (Yale University), 91
British Museum, 30, 140
Brooklyn Museum of Art, 13–14, 132–33, 135, 152, 162
Brygos Painter, 59, 61, 61
Burnham, Daniel, 116
Buruma, Ian, 126
Byzantium (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 159, 178
Carr, David, 104
Catherine Reynolds Foundation, 144–45
celebrities, 198
Cézanne, Paul, 67–72, 186
Cézanne (Philadelphia Museum of Art), 186
Charles I on Horseback (Van Dyck), 46, 47
Cheney, Lynne V., 11
Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 (Ensor), 97, 99
Christie’s, 14
Churchill, Sir Winston, 43, 116
civic awareness, 77, 142–43
Clark, Kenneth, 43
Clear Channel Communications, 164–65
Clore Gallery (Tate Britain), 88
Cold War, 125–26
collectors, 13–14, 132
Collingwood, R. G., 109
commercialization, 22, 73, 123, 130–31, 146–47
competition, 121, 123, 154, 159, 163, 179, 181
conservation/preservation, 34–35, 41–43, 50, 52, 114–16, 126, 163, 165, 193–95
consolation, 40, 45, 49, 73, 78, 113, 142
Constitution, U.S., 13, 106–7, 124, 127
Corbis, 154
corporate support, 173–74
Council for Excellence in Government, 17
credibility, 166–67
crowding, 53, 90–92, 97–98, 143, 160, 184–85
Crucifixion (Masaccio), 38, 40–41, 45
Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning (van der Weyden), 192
cultural patrimony claims, 12–13, 115, 196–97
curators, 157, 178–79, 181
deaccessioning, 135, 147
Degas, Edgar, 93, 173
democracy/democratization, 107, 122, 124, 130–31, 141, 156
Denon, Vivant, 115
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 107–8, 122, 126
Dewey, John, 109
Diderot, Denis, 84
digital images, 33, 96, 153–54. See also Internet
Dinomania (American Museum of Natural History), 162
distractions, 73, 83, 86–95
diversity. See pluralism
du Bos, Abbé, 84–85
Duccio di Buoninsegna, 34–35
Eakins (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 178
Eastlake, Sir Charles, 28, 30, 35, 47
education, 18–20, 30, 52, 73, 77, 96, 105–6, 110, 112, 139–40, 156
Elkins, James, 21, 83–86, 109
Enlightenment, 105, 123, 139–40
Ensor, James, 97, 99
entertainment, 73, 77, 137–39, 161–62. See also pleasure/enjoyment
entertainment industry, 111-12, 154, 160
Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums, 18–19, 155–56, 166
exhibition catalogues, 109–10
exhibition design, 91–92, 94, 97, 143
exhibitions: admission fees for, 186–93
catalogues of, 109–10
design of, 91–92, 94, 97, 143
funding of, 13–14, 144–45, 173–74
loans of artworks for, 122, 163–65
temporary, 54–55, 73, 94, 122, 158–59, 163, 177–82, 186
venues for, 166
experience of art, 20–21, 33–34, 40, 45, 50–52, 72–73, 119–20, 136, 155, 166
quality and, 77–101, 98, 138, 182–85. See also nourishment; pleasure/enjoyment; seeing/looking
expertise, 18, 32–35, 52, 100, 110–11, 126, 195
Father Reading the Bible (Greuze), 85
Feliciano, Hector, 12
Finley, Karen, 12
First Amendment rights, 13, 132
Fisher, Philip, 21, 54, 83, 86–88, 92, 97, 141
flânerie, 142
Flaying of Marsyas (Titian), 184
Fogg Museum, 55, 57
fragments, 57–62, 66
free speech rights, 13, 132
French Revolution, 105–7, 114–15, 141
Frick Art Museum (Pittsburgh), 184, 200
Fried, Michael, 84–85, 87
Friedrich, Caspar David, 84, 91
Fumaroli, Marc, 105, 112, 115, 119, 123
funding, 125
acquisitions and, 28
admission fees and, 186–93
competition for, 121–22
deaccessioning and, 135
exhibitions and, 13–14, 144–45, 173–74
guidelines for, 133
memberships and, 187–88, 190
museum operations and, 158, 173
philanthropy and, 131, 144–45
taxes and, 107, 116
Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck, 137
Gaskell, Ivan, 45, 56
Gates, Bill, 153–54
Gauguin (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 178
Gautier, Théophile, 66
Gehry, Frank, 118
General Motors Corporation, 144–45
Géricault, Théodore, 80
Getty Museum (Los Angeles), 95, 97, 99, 193
Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 95
Gingrich, Newt, 11, 14
Giorgio Armani (Guggenheim Museum), 16, 130–31
Giorgione, 30
Girl Weeping over Her Dead Canary (Greuze), 32, 84
Giuliani, Rudolph, 13, 132
globalization, 126, 145–46, 156
Gomes, Peter, 113, 114
Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 82–83
Gopnik, Adam, 126
Gould, Stephen Jay, 162–63
government involvement, 106–8, 112, 129, 176
Gowing, Lawrence, 70
Grande Galerie (Louvre), 88
Greek vases, fragments of, 57–62
Greenblatt, Stephen, 21
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 32, 84, 85
Guggenheim Museum (New York), 14–16, 69, 88, 130–31, 135–38, 154, 165
Habermas, Jurgen, 138
Hamilton, Lee H., 17–18
Harlem on My Mind (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 156
Harris, Neil, 124
Hartley, Ben, 137, 154
Harvard University, 125, 192
Heifitz, Ronald, 122
hierarchy, 111–12, 123–24, 126
High Museum (Atlanta), 89
Holocaust, looting of art during, 12, 115, 196–98
Holy Virgin Mary, The (Ofili), 13
House of Representatives, U.S., 12
Hoving, Thomas, 156
Huyssen, Andreas, 143–44
Hyatt Hotels, 89
Image of Christ, The (National Gallery, London), 30–31
Impressionist and Danish Pictures from Ordrupgaard (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 178
Incredulity of Saint Thomas (Strozzi), 30–31
individual support, 107, 140, 144–45, 173, 176
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 63–67
integrity, 22, 133–34, 144–45, 152, 161, 163
Internet, 55, 96, 136, 167
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), 95, 97, 99, 193
James, Henry, 142
Japanese venues, 166
John C. Whitehead Forum of the Council for Excellence in Government, 17
Johnson, Philip, 118
Kahn, Louis, 91, 118
Kimball Art Museum (Fort Worth, Tex.), 118
Kimmelman, Michael, 104, 130–31, 135–36, 138–39, 142
Kneeling Angel (Bernini), 55–56, 56
Knight, Christopher, 138, 189–90
Krens, Thomas, 14–16, 55
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), 141, 165
Kunstkammer, 140
labels, 32–33, 94–95, 97, 109, 195
Las Vegas venues, 166
leadership, 22, 121–22
Lee, Sherman, 156
Legend of Saint Augustine and the Trinity (Lippi), 37
Leicester Codex (Leonardo da Vinci), 154
Leonardo da Vinci, 154
Lewis, Peter B., 24n.15
lighting, 91, 97, 143
Lion Attacking a Horse (Susini), 81, 81–82
Lippi, Fra Filippo, 35, 37
loans of artworks, 37, 122, 163–65
Locke, John, 108
looking. See seeing/looking
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 20, 130
Louvre, Musée du, 88, 106–7, 114–15, 140, 167
MacDonald, Dwight, 137
MacNeice, Louis, 47
Made in California: Image and Identity, 1900 to 2000 (LACMA), 20, 130
Madonna di Foligno (Raphael), 115
Maestà (Duccio), 34–35
Magherini, Graziella, 84
management, museum, 130, 134, 157–58, 173–76, 200
advertising campaigns and, 55, 132–33, 167–68
funding and, 13–14, 28, 107, 116, 121–22, 125, 131, 133, 135, 144–45, 158, 186–93
mission and, 22, 120–22, 125–26, 141, 147
marketplace pressures, 122–23, 125–26, 164–65, 174–76
Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien, The (Ingres), 63–66, 64–65
Masaccio, 38–41, 45
media attention, 132–33, 135, 183, 196–200. See also advertising campaigns
Meier, Richard, 89, 95
memberships, 187–88, 190
Memorandum of Understanding (Italy-U.S.), 197–98
memory, 112–14, 126, 139, 141–43
Menil Collection (Houston), 91, 118
Meninas, Las (Velazquez), 153
Messer, Tom (Thomas), 154
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 140, 155–56, 159, 178–79
Micali Painter, 58, 59
Minneapolis Museum of Art, 186, 190
mission, of museums, 22, 120–22, 125–26, 141, 147
moral authority, 146, 155
Mouse Museum (Oldenburg), 140
Murdoch, Iris, 50
Muschamp, Herbert, 142–43
Musée du Louvre. See Louvre, Musée du
Musée Napoléon, 114–15
Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.), 144
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 140, 155, 168
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 167
Museum of Modern Art (New York), 90, 90, 131, 141–42, 173–74, 179, 183–84, 188
National Endowment for the Arts, 11, 19, 106, 126, 178
National Endowment for the Humanities, 11, 106
National Gallery, Berlin, 28
National Gallery, London, 21, 27–48, 92, 97, 188
evacuation of during World War II, 42–43, 49
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), 90, 180
Nazi era, looting of art during, 12, 115, 196–98
Newman, Barnett, 173
New York Times (newspaper), 15–16, 132, 147, 161, 199
Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 28–30
Nicholas, Lynn, 12
Noli Me Tangere (Titian), 30–32, 31, 43–45
nourishment, 73–74, 77, 108–9, 126, 140. See also experience of art; pleasure/enjoyment
Oates, Joyce Carol, 114
Ofili, Chris, 13
Ohr, George, 118
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, Miss.), 118
Oldenburg, Claes, 140
Old Masters (Bernhard), 141
ownership, 105–6, 115–16
Ozick, Cynthia, 62
Parker, Harry, 157
Peale, Charles Willson, 123, 139, 140
Peel, Sir Robert, 28–29, 47
Pei, I. M., 90
Pelli, Cesar, 90
permanent collections, 54–55, 73, 94, 97, 110, 180, 182
Pesellino, Francesco, 35–37
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 140, 173, 182, 186, 188
philanthropy, 131, 144–45, 190
Philip Morris, 173
Piano, Renzo, 91, 118
Pierpont Morgan Library (New York), 131
Pietà, 84
Plaster Cast of a Putto (Cézanne), 67, 67–68
pleasure/enjoyment, 30, 42–43, 138–39. See also entertainment; experience of art; nourishment
pluralism, 19, 77–78, 111, 122, 156
political/social agendas, 20, 110-11, 125, 156–57, 196
Pollock, Jackson, 185
Pompidou Center (Paris), 89
popular culture, 112, 122, 146, 162
Portman, John, 89
postmodernist theory, 124
pottery objects, 50, 57–63
Pre-Columbian Pavilion (Dumbarton Oaks), 118
preservation. See conservation/preservation
Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, 12
President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, 19
Proust, Marcel, 143
provenance, 12–13, 115
quality: of artworks, 111–12, 123–24, 126
of museum experience, 77–101, 98, 138, 182–85
Raft of the Medusa (Géricault), 80
Raphael, 115
reciprocal loans, 163–64
Rembrandt, 78–79, 79–80, 97, 98, 100, 101
Renaissance, 140
Renaissance Tapestries (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 159, 178
reproductions, 111, 152–53. See also authenticity
respect: for artworks, 165–66
for the public, 160, 172–73
responsibility, 35, 73, 129, 134–36, 143, 145–47, 195
Richter, Gerhardt, 111
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 71–72
Romanticism, German, 140
royal collections, 27
Saatchi, Charles, 14, 132
Sacks, Peter, 52
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 166
Sassetta, 37–38
Scarry, Elaine, 49–50, 114
Schapiro, Meyer, 69
Schatzkammer, 140
Schultz, Fred, 197
Seabrook, John, 146
seating, 94–95, 97
Seattle Art Museum, 166
secular cathedrals/churches, 104–5, 113, 140, 157
seeing/looking, 21, 51, 54, 71–72, 88, 109, 140, 160, 181. See also experience of art
Sensation (Brooklyn Museum of Art), 13–14, 132–33, 135, 152
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 15, 40, 45, 49, 73, 78, 126, 142, 177
Serrano, Andres, 12
shopping malls, 160–61
Sigel, Tony, 56
Sirefman, Susanna, 116–17
Smith, Roberta, 16, 20, 130–31
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), 144–45
social agendas. See political/social agendas
socioeconomic classes, bonds among, 27–30, 47, 77–78, 109, 144
Sontag, Susan, 138
Sophilos, 57, 58
Soros, George, 126
special exhibitions. See temporary exhibitions
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart), 89–90
Stàdelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt), 97
Star Wars (Brooklyn Museum of Art), 162
state, as authority, 105–8, 129
State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), 14, 37, 165
Stefano di Giovanni, 37–38
Stendhal Syndrome, 83–84
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Mass.), 131
Still Life with Plaster Cast of Cupid (Cézanne), 68, 68–69
Stirling, James, 88, 89
Storr, Robert, 79
Strozzi, Bernardo, 30–31
studies, 63–66
Susini, Gianfranco, 81–82
Tapestry in the Renaissance (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 159, 178
Task Force on the Spoliation of Art during the Nazi/World War II Era, 12
Tate Britain, 88
Tate Modern, 90
taxes, 107, 116
temporary exhibitions, 54–55, 73, 94, 122, 158–59, 163, 177–82, 186
theme parks, 160, 162–63
theory, 123–25
Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 91
Tintoretto, 141
Titian, 30–32, 43–45, 184
tourists/tourism, 131, 192
Transfiguration (Duccio), 34
Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 178
Trilling, Lionel, 50–51
Trinity with Saints Mamas and James, Zeno and Jerome, The (Pesellino), 35–37, 36
trustees, 176, 179, 183, 193
Unesco, 152
University Art Museum (UC-Berkeley), 89
Valéry, Paul, 53, 73, 119
van der Weyden, Rogier, 192
Van Dyck, Anthony, 46, 47
Van Gogh Museum (Netherlands), 192
Varnedoe, Kirk, 124–25
Vatican Museums, 115
Velazquez, Diego, 153
Vendler, Helen, 62
Venetian Resort Hotel-Casino (Las Vegas), 14
Venturi, Robert, 166
Veronese, Paolo, 33
Victoria and Albert Museum (London), 94, 95, 167
View of l’Estaque (Cézanne), 186
Virgin and Child (Masaccio), 38–41, 39
Vision of Saint Helena, The (Paolo), 33
visitors. See attendance
Wagner, Richard, 92–94
Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 164–65
Warburg, Felix, 37
Weil, Simone, 50, 114
West, Benjamin, 92
Whistler, James, 94
White-Bearded Man (Tintoretto), 141
Wilde, Oscar, 160
World War II, 12, 42–43, 49, 115, 196–98
World Wide Web. See Internet
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 88–89
Young Rembrandt in His Studio, The (Rembrandt), 100, 101
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