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Capital culture : J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the reinvention of the museum experience
- Title
- Capital culture : J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the reinvention of the museum experience / Neil Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Neil, 1938-
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- 608 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Becoming Carter Brown -- The National Gallery : directions and deviations -- Stalking the prey : the quest for old masters -- The secretary arrives : Dillon Ripley and the Smithsonian challenge -- Reinventing the National Gallery : creating the East Building -- "What hath Brown wrought?" -- Presenting King Tut -- Trouble in paradise : the light that failed -- Exhibiting strategies -- The secretary carries on : consolidating Dillon Ripley's administration -- Minister of Culture : shaping Washington -- "Treasure houses of Britain" : the anatomy of an exhibition -- Campaigns and conquests -- Goodbye Columbus : celebrating the quincentenary -- Retirement projects.
- Call Number
- JQE 13-237
- ISBN
- 9780226067704 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 022606770X (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 9780226434469
- 022643446X
- 9780226067841 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013016602
- OCLC
- 843010401
- Author
- Harris, Neil, 1938- author.
- Title
- Capital culture : J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the reinvention of the museum experience / Neil Harris.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 13-237