Research Catalog

Title

The art museum in modern times / Charles Saumarez Smith.

Author

Saumarez Smith, Charles

Publication

• London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

271 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership, making him uniquely qualified to explore the ways in which art museums have changed over the past century and examine where they might be headed in the future. For this book, Saumarez Smith has undertaken an odyssey to art museums across the globe. From Tate Modern in London to the Benesse House Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima; from the Getty Center in Los Angeles to the Museum of New and Old Art, a ferry-ride from Hobart in Tasmania; from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the West Bund Museum in Shanghai--he has visited them all, casting an acute eye on the way the experience of art is shaped by the buildings that house it and the organizing principles by which it is displayed. What has changed over the past century? Where the public once visited museums to be educated in art history, he argues, they are now more likely to be in search of a private, aesthetic experience. Museum displays that were automatically didactic, chronological and either national or Western in viewpoint are now thematic and global. While museums used to be invariably in city centres, they may now be in remote locations, destinations of cultural pilgrimage. And where architects once created neutral spaces in which to display art, they now build spectacular architectural landmarks, stamping an identity on run-down neighbourhoods and sparking regeneration through cultural tourism.

Subjects

• Museum techniques
• Art museum architecture
• History
• 1900-2099
• Art museums > Social aspects
• ART / General
• Museum techniques > History > 21st century
• Museum techniques > History > 20th century
• Art museum architecture > History > 21st century
• Art museum architecture > History > 20th century
• Art museums > History > 21st century
• Art museums > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-261) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction: The Traditional Museum -- 1. The Modern Museum. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1939) ; Louisiana, Humlebaek (1958) ; Guggenheim Museum, New York (1959) ; Castelvecchio Museum, Verona (1964) ; Whitney Museum, New York (1966) ; New National Gallery, Berlin (1968) ; Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Sao Paulo (1968) ; Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford (1968) ; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (1972) ; Centre Pompidou, Paris (1977) ; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (1977) ; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (1978) ; East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1978) -- 2. The Postmodern Museum. Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1984) ; Saatchi Gallery, London (1985) ; Musee d'Orsay, Paris (1986) ; The Menil Collection, Houston (1987) ; The Louvre Pyramid, Paris (1989) ; The Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London (1991) ; Benesse House Museum, Naoshima (1992) ; Getty Center, Los Angeles (1997) ; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (1997) ; Beyeler Foundation, Basel (1997) -- 3. Museums for the New Millennium. Tate Modern, London (2000) ; Ondaatje Wing, National Portrait Gallery, London (2000) ; Neue Galerie, New York (2001) ; Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY (2003) ; Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004) ; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2004) ; Kolumba, Cologne (2007) ; Neues Museum, Berlin (2009) ; Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire (2011) ; Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011) -- 4. The Museum Reinvented. MONA, Hobart (2011) ; Louvre Museum, Lens (2012) ; The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2012) ; Whitney Museum, New York (2015) ; The Broad, Los Angeles (2015) ; Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London (2016) ; Louvre Abu Dhabi (2017) ; The Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018) ; Muzeum Susch, Susch (2019) ; West Bund Museum, Shanghai (2019) -- 5. Key Issues. The role of the client ; The role of the architect ; The rise of the private museum ; The morality of wealth ; The end of history ; The changing characteristics of works of art ; Globalization ; The digital world ; The search for the sacred ; Audience expectations -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JQE 22-140

ISBN

• 9780500022436
• 0500022437

LCCN

2020940910

OCLC

1233310517

Author

Saumarez Smith, Charles, author.

Title

The art museum in modern times / Charles Saumarez Smith.

Publisher

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-261) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Research Call Number

JQE 22-140