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De, Villiers Katerina Lucya. "The JH Pierneef collection of the City Council of Pretoria housed in the Pretoria Art Museum." Diss., University of Pretoria, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27532.
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This study is based on the catalogue/checklist of Pierneef works in the Pretoria Art Museum collection. The artist’s life, social, political and artistic influences of the period, both local and international, may be deduced from works analysed and discussed. The Arts and Crafts movement was a powerful influence affecting ideas on national identity, folk art and the vernacular from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. A world-wide romantic nationalism stimulated a search for identity and exploitation of the indigenous. It is argued that these trends may be identified in the artistic development of Pierneef who, through friends, wide reading and intensive study was alive to European developments but focused on the indigenous arts of Southern Africa. He was the first South African artist to recognize Busman art and that of the black peoples. They had a profound influence on his own development and the motifs of his art.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 1997.
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Kgokong, Arthur. "South African black artists : in the permanent collection of the Pretoria Art Museum (1964 –1994)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78619.
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The Pretoria Art Museum opened its doors to the public on May 20, 1964. At that time the Johannesburg Art Gallery had already been established in 1910 and the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 1895. The realization of the Pretoria Art Museum was an accomplishment of the City’s clerk’s push for the city to have a museum of its own that would enable it to showcase works that the city owned which until then had been confined to its administrative offices and the City Hall. This nucleus collection which had been inaccessible to the general public, consisted of South African Old Masters and 17 Century Dutch art. On 15 April 1964, about a month before the museum opened officially to the public, the Selection Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Art Museum instituted by the City Council of Pretoria met to deliberate on how the collection of the museum was to be built in order to expand this nucleus collection further.The result was a series of eight resolutions that favoured the acquisition of South African Old Masters and The Hague School (19thcentury Netherlandish art). In the minutes of that meeting no mention was made of the acquisition of 20thcentury South African black artists. By 1994 about 2 404 units of artworks by white artists had been acquired in contrast to about 86 units of artworks by black artists. The eight resolutions tabulated by the board, can be taken as an informal policy thatthe museum adopted during the thirty-year period of its existence from 1964 to 1994 to acquire artworks. No formal acquisition policy existed as a part of the museum’s acquisition strategy during that three decade period. Fortunately, as the collection grew, there were deviations in the ‘acquisition strategy’ because works by black artists, though collected at a far lesser frequency than those by white artists, found their place in the collection. This research paper is a homage to the contributions of 20thcentury South African black artists’ contributions to the history of South African art.Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Baker, Laura. "The New Orleans Museum of Art: Managing the Collection." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/173.
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An internship experience in the Office of the Registrar and Collections Management at the New Orleans Museum of Art is reviewed alongside discussion of the Museum’s history, structure, and permanent collection, in addition to analyses of the organization’s finances and its institutional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Discussion topics also include the intern’s experience, best practices in similar institutions, and a conclusion with recommendations made by the intern.
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Massey, Ivor Nikolas. "Awakening The Muse: A Museum for the Fisher Family Art Collection." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36034.
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This thesis is a proposal for a large contemporary art museum on the Presidio Parade Grounds in San Francisco, California. The site is small and historic, thus my solution was to build primarily underground. Through my exploration of designing a subterranean art museum I addressed the challenges of natural lighting, circulation, and curation. The following images document the result of my studies.Master of Architecture
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Wilson, Janelle. "Accessioning and Managing the Petersburg Area Art League Collection." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2296.
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Since the 1960s, the Petersburg Area Art League (PAAL) has obtained works of art for its permanent collection through purchases, private donations, and through the local art show, the Poplar Lawn Art Festival, later known as Artfest. Recently, however, the organization has decided to become a non-collecting institution in order to focus on its mission to promote the arts in Petersburg through gallery shows for local artists and educational programs. While PAAL’s staff members share a love of art and a dedication to the local community, they have not been trained in professional standards for handling museum collections as outlined by the American Association of Museums (AAM). Consequently, the PAAL collection had not been adequately documented or stored in a manner that protected the works from potential damage or degradation. This museums project was designed to help the Petersburg Area Art League meet AAM standards. During the summer of 2010, the collection of 150 artworks was accessioned; its storage facility was reorganized; a database was created; and a collections management policy that would ensure the continued care of the collection after the completion of this project was written and approved. This paper describes challenges encountered and resolved during the two-month project and provides a reference for those who wish to take on similar projects in the future.
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Berry, Jessica, and n/a. "Re:Collections - Collection Motivations and Methodologies as Imagery, Metaphor and Process in Contemporary Art." Griffith University. Queensland College of Art, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070327.151934.
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By the 1990's many modes of artwork incorporated the constructs of the museum. Art forms including, 'ethnographic art', 'museum interventions', 'museum fictions' and 'artist museums' were considered to be located in similar realms to each other. These investigations into this emerging 'genre' of collection-art have primarily focussed upon the critique of the public museum and its grand-narratives. This thesis will attempt to recognise that the critique of institutional hierarchical systems is now considered integral to much collection art and extends this enquiry to incorporate private collections which examine the narratives of everyday existence. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach to material culture and art criticism in examining everyday objects within contemporary collection-art. In this context, this paper argues that: the investigation of collection motivations (fetish, souvenir and system) as metaphor, process and imagery in conjunction with the mimicking of museology methodologies (classification, order and display) is an effective model for interpreting everyday objects within contemporary collection-art. In formulating this argument, this paper examines the ways in which artists emulate museology methodologies in order to convey cultural significance for everyday objects. This is explored in conjunction with the employment of collection motivations by artists as a device to understand elements of human/object relations. In doing so, it contemplates the convergence between the practices of museums and collection-artists. These issues are explored through the visual and analytic investigations of key artist case studies including: Damien Hirst, Sylvie Fleury, Mike Kelley, Christian Boltanski, On Kawara, Luke Roberts, Jason Rhoades, Karsten Bott and Elizabeth Gower. In doing so, this paper argues that the everyday objects of collection-art can represent a broad range of socio/cultural concerns, so delineating a closer relationship between collection-art and material culture.
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Glasscock, Ann Marie. "THE SIXTY-NINTH STREET BRANCH OF THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: A RESPONSE TO MUSEUM THEORY AND DESIGN." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/197756.
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Art HistoryM.A.
By the 1920s, ideas about the function and appearance of the American art museum were shifting such that they no longer were perceived to be merely storehouses of art. Rather, they were meant to fill a present democratic need of reaching out to the public and actively helping to cultivate the tastes and knowledge of a desired culturally literate citizen. As a result of debates about the museum's mission, audience, and design, in 1931 the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened the first branch museum in the nation on 69th Street in the suburb of Upper Darby in an effort to improve the relationship between the museum and the community. With sponsorship by its parent institution and financing by the Carnegie Corporation of New York City, the two organizations hoped to determine, over a five-year period, whether branch museums, like branch libraries, would be equally successful and valuable in reaching out to the public, both physically and intellectually. The new Sixty-ninth Street Branch Museum was to serve as a valuable mechanism for civic education by encouraging citizens to think constructively about art and for the development of aesthetic satisfaction, but more importantly it was to be a catalyst for social change by integrating the visual arts into the daily life of the community. In this thesis I will demonstrate that, although the first branch museum was only open for a year and a half, it nonetheless succeeded in shaping the way people thought about art and how museums were meant to function as democratic institutions in American society.
Temple University--Theses
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Cengel, Lauren Marie. "Making Meaning and Connections: A Study of the Interpretation and Education Practices for the Medieval Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1397568655.
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le, Roux Salomé. "The face of the University of Pretoria : a critical investigation of selected portraits in the UP Art Collection." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65569.
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An institution’s unique identity and culture can be constructed and communicated through the artworks (such as portraits) that it collects, commissions and inherits. As a representation, not only of the identity of the sitter portrayed, but also of various social types and stereotypes circulating in particular cultural contexts, a portrait is an especially powerful visual manifestation of the ‘invisible’ identity and culture an institution aims to establish and maintain. This dissertation explores what the portraits in the University of Pretoria’s Art Collection reveal about this Institution’s values, reputation, identity and culture. The research focuses on the official, commissioned portraits of University officials, as well as portraits in the Collection by Erich Mayer. The main aim of the study is to investigate the discourses that are articulated through the selected portraits by considering the various meanings they convey. Furthermore, this dissertation investigates the ways in which their explicit and implicit meanings might support or negate the University of Pretoria’s envisioned institutional culture and identity. The study argues that artworks in the UP Art Collection that have contentious subject matter and histories need to be rehabilitated and renegotiated in creative, innovative ways, because artworks in the Collection are treasures that provide various benefits to the Institution.Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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Pienoski, Christine Marie Pienoski. "Pyramids of Lake Erie: The Historical Evolution of the Cleveland Museum of Art's Egyptian Collection." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461522282.
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Farmer, Brooke Michael. "Wake Forest University Art Collection: Current State and Recommendations for Future Use." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/19.
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The Wake Forest University Art Collection consists of nearly 1300 works of art of various media dating from the fifteenth century to today that are divided into nine distinct collections. Assessing the current state of the Collection, this thesis project evaluates the art historical significance of the Collection using select museum quality works of art and then proceeds with a discussion of collections management, including the topics of acquisition, accession, and risk management. Environmental conditions in Collection facilities are measured against widely accepted museum standards. Use of the Collection as an educational resource by the University and surrounding community is compromised by a variety of factors, including issues of accessibility and security. General recommendations to improve the current state of the Collection include adapting collections management policies and procedures to standard museum practices and the creation of a permanent museum space and staff.
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CARDASSILARIS, NICOLE RUTH. "Bringing Cultures Together: Elma Pratt, Her International School of Art, and Her Collection of International Folk Art at the Miami University Art Museum." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1204738152.
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Norton-Westbrook, Halona. "Between the 'collection museum' and the university : the rise of the connoisseur-scholar and the evolution of art museum curatorial practice 1900-1940." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/between-the-collection-museum-and-the-universitythe-rise-of-the-connoisseurscholar-and-the-evolution-of-art-museum-curatorial-practice-19001940(b1c01103-496f-44f6-a1a1-24c556c8a04c).html.
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This thesis investigates the evolution of curatorial practice in Britain and the United States in the first four decades of the twentieth century through an analysis of the formative years of two museums, the Wallace and Frick Collections, and of two academic programmes, the Fogg Art Museum Course at Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. Through these case studies, this study charts the emergence and development of a specialised curatorial knowledge base that was influenced by traditions of connoisseurship and criticism and shaped by discussions surrounding art history’s disciplinary parameters taking place in the museum, the press, the art market and the university. This investigation makes visible the processes through which art museum curators, keepers and directors collaborated in the creation and standardisation of their own expertise and contends that this quest was fundamentally intertwined with struggles for authority, agency and professional recognition. The manifestation of this expertise resulted in a renegotiation of institutional power dynamics and gave rise to a new type of art museum leader: the connoisseur-scholar, who performed an important function in the art museum’s transition from a space dominated by gentlemanly amateurs to one in which academically trained art historians increasingly assumed positions of authority. Asserting that the formation of this knowledge base cannot be separated from the academic institutionalisation of art history and curatorial training, this study demonstrates that individuals operating in the spheres of the art museum and the university were engaged in a dialogue through which the core values of these respective endeavours were realised. Detailing these processes and relationships and locating them within the context of a shift towards aesthetic idealism, this thesis provides insight into the historical origins of modern-day curatorial practice in Britain and the United States.
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Pate, Jennifer Ashley. "The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1622.
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Crawford, Jessie A. "Art for One or Art for All? Exploring the Role and Impact of Private Collection Museums in the United States." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460929598.
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Michel, Karl Frederick. "Drawing on experience a study of eighteen artists from the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum collection /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Michel.pdf.
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Cardassilaris, Nicole Ruth. "Bringing cultures together Elma Pratt, her international school of art, and her collection of international folk art at the Miami University Art Museum /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1204738152.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.Advisor: Theresa Leininger-Miller, PhD (Committee Chair); Mikiko Hirayama, PhD (Committee Member); Anne Timpano, MA (Committee Member). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed May 8, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: Elma Pratt; International School of Art; Zakopane, Poland; Miami University Art Museum; folk art; material culture; art education; museum collections; Polish folk art; women in art education; Brooklyn Museum; Franz Cizek. Includes bibliographical references.
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Randall, Nicholas. "Public Culture Intertwined." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63632.
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This dissertation grapples with the making
of identity in contemporary Tshwane,
South Africa. Through this discourse, a
number of issues, informants & responses
are identified & developed as means of
extracting identity from a cosmopolitan
society.
This extrapolation is undertaken as a
means of reinvigorating the chosen study
area as active public space, playing a role in
informing both public & cultural discourse.
At this dissertation's conclusion, a unique
architectural response will be presented,
dealing with issues such as identity, memory,
globalisation, & context. In grappling with
these issues, this dissertation will add
to a contextual architectural discourse
concerning the public realm, & cultural
interactions in South Africa.Die skripsie probeer die kwessie rondom die skepping van identiteit in kontemporêre Tshwane, Suid Afrika, behandel. Deur die ondersoek van die bogenoemde kwessie, word veeltallige probleme, insigte en reaksies geidentifiseer en ontwikkel,om deur sulke wyse identiteit vanuit die kosmopolitaanse gemeenskap te identifiseer. Deur wyse van hierdie ekstrapolasie word die heraktivering van die verkose studie area as n aktiewe publieke ruimte ondersoek, asook die rol wat dit speel daarin om publike en kulturele ruimtes te beinvloed deur verhandeling. Die slot van hierdie skripsie sal n unieke argitektoniese reaksie uitbeeld, wat die kwessies van identiteit, nagedagtenis, globalisering en kontektualiteit aanspreek. Deur die verhandeling van die bogenoemde kwessies, sal die skripsie n bydrae lewer tot die kontektuele argitektoniese gesprek rondom die publieke ryk en kulturele wisselwerking en interaksie in hedendaagse Suid Afrika.
Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Identitäts ndung im zeitgenössischen Tshwane, Südafrika. Durch diesen Diskurs werden eine Reihe von emen, Informanten und Antworten identi ziert und als Mittel entwickelt, um Identität aus einer kosmopolitischen Gesellschaft herauszuholen. Diese Extrapolation dient der Wiederbelebung des gewählten Untersuchungsgebietes als aktiver ö¨entlicher Raum und spielt in dem Sinne eine Rolle den ö¨entlichen und kulturellen Diskurs zu informieren. Am Ende dieser Dissertation wird eine einzigartige architektonische Antwort präsentiert, die sich mit emen wie Identität, Gedächtnis, Globalisierung und Kontext befasst. Diese Dissertation wird zu einem kontextuellen architektonischen Diskurs über den ö¨entlichen Bereich und kulturelle Interaktionen in Südafrika beitragen.
Mini Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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Summerfield, Angela. "Interventions : twentieth-century art collection schemes and their impact on local authority art gallery and museum collections of twentieth-century British art in Britain." Thesis, City, University of London, 2007. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17420/.
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In the twentieth century, collecting became a core activity of local authority art galleries and museums in Britain. A key feature of these art collections was the representation of Twentieth Century British Art. The aim of this study is to examine, for the first time, this development as abroad cultural phenomenon, through the distinctive roles played by central government-funded, and independent national and provincial art collection schemes. The central government-funded art collection schemes are the V. & A Purchase Grant Fund, War Artists' Advisory Committee and the National Heritage Memorial Fund; and the national loan and exhibition schemes offered by the Tate Gallery and the Arts Council. Independent schemes are more numerous and varied. These were administered by the National Art Collections Fund (now the Art Fund), Contemporary Art Society, Scottish Modem Arts Association, Contemporary Art Society for Wales, Henry Moore Foundation and Gulbenkian Foundation. In addition, there were the independent national loan and exhibition schemes offered by the Museums Association, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation and Alistair McAlpine and provincial schemes based in Manchester (Charles Rutherston Loan Scheme), Cardiff (National Museum of Wales Loan Scheme), Liverpool ('John Moores' competition-exhibitions) and Bradford ('International Print Biennale' competition-exhibitions). Given the geographical coverage, historical scope and focus of this study, a substantial body of published and unpublished literature was consulted. The wide-range of sources examined included institutional histories, biographies and studies of Twentieth-Century British Art; permanent collection and exhibition catalogues; newspaper, journal and magazine articles, curatorial records and correspondence; institutional records and correspondence; archival material and reports; and . correspondence and interviews. This entailed the discovery of much new material and the collation of substantial random data held by the Contemporary Art Society and the Gulbenkian Foundation This research seeks to show that local authority collecting of Twentieth-Century British Art was part of a nation-wide cultural pattern determined by certain ideas, theories and policies. Within this context, Section 1 identifies and discusses the nature and purpose of public art galleries, muscums and their art collections from 1845-1945. This momentous period in the museum movement in Britain, it is argued, sustained and generated ideas, theories and policies which encompassed national institutional hierarchies and their models of collecting, high art aesthetic standards and scholarship linked connoisseurship; the organic structure of museums; and multifaceted education. It concludes that during this formative period, an enduring cultural framework was established, from which emerged key collecting impetuses which are art history, patronage and heritage. Sections 2 and 3 examine the roles played by central government-funded and independent schemes, as a response to these issues, which also engendered and reinforced the collecting of specific types of Twentieth Century British Art. Section'4 surveys the local authority collections, which participated in the schemes, and concludes that 1957-79 was a crucial period in post-war collecting, which was both facilitated by the emergence of a considerable and dynamic network of commercial art galleries, and enhanced by national and provincial measures to decentralize the arts. A principal conclusion is that the future of modem (twentieth-century) and contemporary (twenty-first- century) British art collecting, by local authority art galleries and museums, lies in its perception as part of a collective cultural enterprise, in which the intervention of collection schemes will, as in the past, play a fundamental role. Finally, there is also a strong argument for provincial institutions to feed into a national debate as to what is selected to represent both modem and contemporary British art practice in public collections in general.
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Tondorg, Britta. "From Kunstkammer to art museum : exhibiting and cataloguing art in the Royal collection in Copenhagen, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417701.
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Kemble, Sally Savage. "Printmaking from 1400 to 1700 with a catalogue of the print collection at the Dallas Museum of Art /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : University microfilms international, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355363971.
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Landis, Tamra R. "How a Successful Collecting Society Can Transform an Art Museum: A History of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society at the Toledo Museum of Art." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522759729069838.
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Bryson, Karen Margaret. "An Egyptian Royal Portrait Head in the Collection of the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/31.
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This thesis discusses a small, red granite, Egyptian royal portrait head in the collection of the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. The head is determined to be a fragment from a group depicting the king in front of the monumental figure of a divine animal, probably a ram or baboon. Scholars have attributed the head to the reigns of various New Kingdom pharaohs, including Horemheb and Seti I, but on more careful examination its style demonstrates that it dates to the reign of Ramesses II (1304-1237 B.C.).
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Orozco, Gabrielle Alexandra. "CARAVAGGIO: PERCEPTION SHIFTS THROUGH SELECTED TWENTIETH– and TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/500523.
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Art HistoryM.A.
The focus of this thesis will be the exploration of the narrative constructs around the life and work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). This exploration will occur through the study of selected exhibitions curated on the Lombard artist from the twentieth- through twenty-first centuries. It will demonstrate how museums have played a significant role in the public’s understanding and perception of Caravaggio. In this thesis, I will argue that exhibitions on Caravaggio have supported and reshaped the general understanding and perception of the artist in crucial ways not done to the same effect in more nuanced academic scholarship. I will also argue that public exhibitions have functioned according to a different set of agendas from those addressed to academia. For example, exhibitions are conceived and function on guiding principles such as alignment with museum mission statements, audience draw and accessibility, educational outcomes, and the visitor experience. This thesis will seek to determine to what measure these principles have affected the framing of content and to clarify how in particular the selective use of Caravaggio’s biography has affected interpretation of his works within a museum context for a viewing public. The restored enthusiasm for Caravaggio in the second-half of the twentieth century also focused on his personal life due to the publication and translation by Walter Friedlaender of Lives written by his seventeenth-century biographers—Giorgio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori—as well as the publication of documents and court records, which highlighted episodes of Caravaggio’s criminality, all impinging on our interpretation of his artistic merits. Although these findings support our understanding of Caravaggio as a complex individual, they also contribute to the sensationalization and romanticization of the artist as the quintessentially bohemian figure. Furthermore, doubtful attributions and disputes over execution dates problematize our understanding of the artist’s oeuvre and have at certain points reinforced a ‘Caravaggio narrative’ of the rebellious, indecorous artist. It is my intention to show how museum exhibitions have contributed to and exploited this narrative and to determine more precisely how and to what extent they have shaped it. With this exploration of Caravaggio’s narrative construction by museum exhibitions of the twentieth- to twenty-first centuries, I aim to approach and reconsider this subject, which has been dealt with heavily in scholarship, under a different lens. In the case of Caravaggio—whose persona and works have been posthumously manipulated, admired, and condemned at the hands of biographers and critics—it is necessary to approach this subject with renewed, unbiased, and objective vigor within a new frame of understanding: the museum exhibition frame. I will use a comparative method, studying three key exhibitions over time, to show how museums have presented the artist’s career development. I pay particular attention to the incorporation of biography and to the impact the inclusion of selected aspects of his Lives have had on the public view of his works. The influential format of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists set the structure and codified the model of biographical determinism that would inform Caravaggio’s later biographers in the interpretation of his works; this has persisted through the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries with the application of psychoanalytic approaches to Caravaggio. The first of the three exhibitions I have selected is Longhi’s 1951 Milan exhibition, Mostra del Caravaggio e dei Caravaggeschi, which restored public consciousness of Caravaggio’s innovative and revolutionary style, reinserting him into the artistic canon. My second example will be The Age of Caravaggio, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1985. The Met exhibition is novel for its focus on Caravaggio’s relationship with his precursors and contemporaries (the organizing committee deliberately excluded works by Caravaggio’s followers) and for its interpretation of works within their historical context. Finally, I will examine Caravaggio: L’ultimo tempo 1606–1610, held first at the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples 2004–2005, then later as Caravaggio: The Final Years, at the National Gallery, London in 2005, which focused on the more enigmatic part of Caravaggio’s late career after his flight from Rome in 1606. The London 2005 exhibition provided new insight into the artist’s stylistic changes in the last years of his life. These three exhibitions will give insight about the perception shifts of the artist that have taken place in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a result of scholarly research spurred by museum exhibitions centered around Caravaggio.
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Tan, Ceyda Basak. "Educational Function Of Art Museums: Two Case Studies From Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608742/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes the educational function of art museums, how education in art museums evolved and how an art museum can conduct an educational mission. The concept of the material collections as the educative origin of art museums will be discussed alongside the history of collections in Europe. In addition to the concept of collection, the importance of educational programmes of art museums will be highlighted. Having derived a general notion of the educational function of art museums, the thesis will seek to answer questions such as how museology evolved in Turkey and whether the turkish museology has an educational concern. In accordance with these questions two turkish contemporary art museums will be investigated as case studies.
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Holdsworth, Ashley. "Liaising Between Visible and Invisible Realities: A Ritual Gourd in the African Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3432.
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In 2010, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts accessioned a ritual gourd from Mambila peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon into their collection. Although ritual containers with similar configurations abound in different parts of the Cameroon Grasslands in Central Africa, the VMFA gourd presents particular difficulties due to the nature of its accumulation and the lack of scholarship on the Mambila peoples. Therefore, in this thesis, all the aspects of its accumulation have been considered in relation to the culture and belief system of the Mambila and their neighbors. Special attention has been paid to the interconnectedness of form, function, and meaning throughout the thesis in order to shed some light on the social, cosmic, and ritual significance of the gourd and its attachments.
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Lamb, Jacquelyn R. "The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection of Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1967 to 1987." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501252/.
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Over a period of two decades, Raymond D. Nasher, a Dallas-based real estate developer, and his late wife Patsy amassed a collection of significant modern sculptures. For years, pieces from the private collection--numbering over 300 as of 1990--were on display in various museums and civic institutions, and they were installed on a rotating basis at Northpark Center, a Dallas shopping mall developed by Nasher. Since the 1987 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition, the collection has been shown in several major international museums. This study documents the formative period of the collection, the Nashers' collecting and exhibiting philosophies, and four early exhibitions of the sculptures. It includes a chronology of the Nashers and major acquisitions of sculpture.
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Cooley, Jessica Allene. "An Inartistic Interest: Civil War Medicine, Disability, and the Art of Thomas Eakins." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/197655.
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While there is an extensive and distinguished body of scholarship exploring the intersection of Thomas Eakins and medical science, his art has not been contextualized critically in relation to American Civil War medicine or the institutional practices of the Army Medical Museum. Within the context of Civil War medicine, Eakins's heroic portraits of surgeons and scientists become more than a reflection of his personal admiration of science and medicine, more than a reflection of the growing professionalization of the medical community in the United States, but implicates him in the narrative of offsetting the horrors wrought by the Civil War by actively enshrining the professionalization of medicine and claims to the advancement of body-based research. Furthermore, while there is an extensive and distinguished body of scholarship exploring the intersection of Thomas Eakins and the body from the perspective of race, gender, and sexuality, the consideration of his work from the perspective of critical disability theory has not been contemplated. Civil War medicine is critical to the art of Thomas Eakins because it demystifies his fascination with the human body, and engages him in the aesthetic reconstruction of disabled veterans and the cultural privileging of the healthy body during and after the American Civil War. By historicizing the science and medical practices that Eakins used and by critically examining his depictions of the body through the lens of disability studies, my thesis raises new critical questions about two of the most researched and theorized topics in Eakins scholarship: medicine and the body.
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Couette, Déborah. "L'Aracine, de l'association au musée : histoire d'une collection d'art brut (1982-2010)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H043.
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L’Aracine est une association loi de 1901 créée en 1982 à l’initiative de Madeleine Lommel en collaboration avec Michel Nedjar et Claire Teller dans le but de rassembler, de conserver et d’exposer une collection d’art brut publique en France. Conçue comme un hommage aux recherches de l’artiste Jean Dubuffet, cette collection – offerte en 1999 au musée d’Art moderne de Villeneuve-d’Ascq – constitue un rare essai de légitimation et de patrimonialisation de l’art brut. Cette thèse, histoire d’une association, d’une collecte et d’une collection, propose de revenir aux origines et aux développements de l’association L’Aracine, en mettant en lumière le rôle joué par des non-professionnels de l’art dans la constitution d’un patrimoine du XXe siècleL’Aracine is a non-profit association founded in 1982 by Madeleine Lommel with Michel Nedjar and Claire Teller, to collect, preserve and exhibit a public collection of art brut in France. Conceived in tribute to the research of artist Jean Dubuffet, the collection – which was given to the Modern Art Museum of Villeneuve-d’Ascq in 1999 ― is a rare attempt to establish art brut’s legitimization and legacy. This PhD – story of an association, a collection process and a collection – reconsiders the origin and development of the L’Aracine project and casts a light on the amateurs whose role was to establish this 20th century patrimony
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Litowitz, Dana D. "The character of an art collection Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry Clay Frick, Albert C. Barnes, David Lloyd Kreeger, and the Donor Memorial in the U.S. /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1418.
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Bernard, Erin Cecilia. "History Truck Unlimited: The New Mobile History, Urban Crisis, and Me." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/310312.
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HistoryM.A.
The Philadelphia Public History Truck is a nearly two-year-old mobile museum project which creates interdisciplinary exhibitions about the history of Philadelphia neighborhoods with those who live, work, and play within the places and spaces of the city. Since I founded the project in 2013, I have navigated partnerships with both grassroots organizations and larger institutions and faced a wide-ranging gamut of experiences worthy of examination by public historians concerned with power and production of history as well as practice-based reflexivity. The first half of this thesis documents my key reflections of the first eighteen months of work and serves as a primary source on the project. This paper also places History Truck into a long historiography of both public history and mobility in the United States of America to explain the emergence of what I am calling the New Mobile History, an emerging form of practice in which community members and public historians work together from the onset of project development using ephemerality and movement as a tool for creativity and civic-driven history making. By analyzing oral history interviews with Cynthia Little and Michael Frisch, I argue firstly that Philadelphia was the birthplace of this New Mobile History. Secondly, I posit that for this New Mobile History to continue evolving, public historians must balance digital work and relationship-based process to create exhibitions which directly serve communities of memory. Lastly, I consider one possible future for History Truck, including its transformation from project to nonprofit organization manned by post-M.A. fellows who have the ability to work passionately on city streets and with new media.
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Borey, Erica. "Reichenbachia, Imperial Edition: Rediscovering Frederick Sander’s Late-Victorian Masterpiece of Botanical Art." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3292.
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This thesis project examines the history, provenance, and contemporary treatment of a rare Imperial Edition of Frederick Sander’s print collection Reichenbachia, Orchids Illustrated and Described, a high-quality orchid compendium dating to the late-nineteenth century. A local philanthropist loaned the Imperial Edition Reichenbachia, number 86 of 100 to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in 2011 on a long-term basis as a promised donation. Research into the origins of this collection involves several disparate historical topics, including the Victorian period of “orchid mania,” imperialist business practices, and chromolithographic printmaking. Discussion of the transition of this collection into a museum art collection covers its consequent registration, conservation, and exhibition. Finally, this thesis project considers the advantages and disadvantages of managing an art collection at a botanical garden.
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Ayres, Sara Craig. "Hidden histories and multiple meanings : the Richard Dennett collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1039.
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Ethnographic collections in western museums such as the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) carry many meanings, but by definition, they represent an intercultural encounter. This history of this encounter is often lost, overlooked, or obscured, and yet it has bearing on how the objects in the collection have been interpreted and understood. This thesis uncovers the hidden history of one particular collection in the RAMM and examines the multiple meanings that have been attributed to the objects in the collection over time. The Richard Dennett Collection was made in Africa in the years when European powers began to colonise the Congo basin. Richard Edward Dennett (1857-1921) worked as a trader in the Lower Congo between 1879 and 1902. The collection was accessioned by the RAMM in 1889. The research contextualises the collection by making a close analysis of primary source material which was produced by the collector and by his contemporaries, and includes publications, correspondence, photographs and illustrations which have been studied in museums and archives in Europe and North America. Dennett was personally involved with key events in the colonial history of this part of Africa but he also studied the indigenous BaKongo community, recording his observations about their political and material culture. As a result he became involved in the institutions of anthropology and folklore in Britain which were attempting to explain, classify and interpret such cultures. Through examining Dennett’s history this research has been able to explore the Congo context, the indigenous society, and those European institutions which collected and interpreted BaKongo collections. The research has added considerably to the museum’s knowledge about this collection and its collector, and the study responds to the practical imperative implicit in a Collaborative Doctoral Project, by proposing a small temporary exhibition in the RAMM to explore these histories and meanings. In making this proposal the research considers the current curatorial debate concerning responsible approaches to colonial collections, and assesses some of the strategies that are being employed in museums today.
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Castel, Mathilde. "La muséologie olfactive, une actualisation résonante de la muséalité de Stránský par l'odorat." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCA053/document.
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A l’instar d’autres médiums, la muséologie permet de rendre compte d’une manière dont l’homme s’approprie spécifiquement la réalité. Cette dernière consiste à y sélectionner des objets, à les prélever, puis à les agencer dans le cadre d’expérience que constitue le musée afin de créer ce que l’on appelle une réalité muséalisée : addition de savoirs contenus dans les objets, manifestés par l’exposition, puis proposés à l’acquisition par l’intermédiaire de sa visite. Cette relation spécifique de l’homme à la réalité est appelée muséalité et telle que ci-dessus relatée, renvoie aux travaux du muséologue Zbynĕk Zbyslav Stránský pour qui la collection d’objets revêt une place centrale au sein du système muséal. Mais à l’heure du numérique connecté et de la possibilité que nous avons de voir les éléments de la réalité sans se trouver physiquement en leur présence, l’importance accordée à la collection d’objets par Stránský semble rendre sa conception de la muséalité obsolète à penser la muséologie. Prenant par conséquent appui sur les travaux du sociologue et philosophe Hartmut Rosa, et notamment sur leur désignation du rôle joué par la perception olfactive dans la qualité de notre relation au monde, la présente recherche s’attache à démontrer que si inadéquation il y a entre les théories de Stránský et l’actualité de l’appropriation de la réalité par l’homme, elle n’incombe pas tant à la dimension physique des objets de musées, qu’à la mono-sensorialité des moyens dont il nous est permis de les entretenir. Alliant la théorie à la pratique, ce travail argumente le fait qu’actualisé au prisme du concept de résonance proposé par Rosa, les travaux de Stránský jouissent encore d’une légitimité à penser les muséologies d’aujourd’hui et de demainLike other mediums, museology shows a way in which man specifically appropriates reality. It consists in selecting objects from it, taking them out and arranging them in the museum's experimental setting in order to create what is called a musealized reality: addition of knowledge contained in objects, manifested by the exhibition, and offered for acquisition through the visit. This specific relation of man to reality is called museality and as mentioned above, refers to the work of the museologist Zbynĕk Zbyslav Stránský for whom the collection of objects is central to the museum system.But in the age of digital and the possibility that we have to see the elements of reality without being physically with them, the importance given to the collection of objects by Stránský seems to make his conception of museality obsolete to think museology.Taking as a result the work of the sociologist and philosopher Hartmut Rosa, and in particular his designation of the role played by olfactory perception in the quality of our relationship with the world, the present research endeavors to demonstrate that if there is a mismatch between Stránský's theories and the actuality of the appropriation of reality by man, it is not so much because of the physical dimension of museum objects than the mono-sensoriality of the means of which we are allowed to maintain them. Combining theory with practice, this work argues that, updated by the concept of resonance proposed by Rosa, Stránský's works still have a legitimacy to think about museologies of today and tomorrow
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Harper, Cheryl. "Changes and Context in the Role of Women in the 1960s Visual Arts Environment: A Case Study." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/199591.
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This thesis examines changes in gender attitudes between the years 1962 and 1967 as seen through the activities of a group of female volunteers at a regional community center, specifically the Fine Arts committee of the Arts Council at the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association in Philadelphia. I demonstrate how the women were conditioned both within and outside their community to accept a subservient role to husbands and male hierarchy. By considering two of the committee's major projects, one that took place in 1962 and the other in 1967, and examining the Jewish community's primary newspaper during the same period, I compare and contrast the attitudes of the female "volunteer" in general and this specific group of more rebellious housewives whose interests were focused in the visual arts. Between the two major projects, examples of sociological theory are examined in order to follow the paradigm shift towards emerging feminism. Over a period of five years these women reassessed their role as housewives, and many eventually participated in professional life outside the home. The specific accomplishments of the Fine Arts Committee are compared, from the first major exhibition in 1962, ART 1963/A New Vocabulary to the last significant project in 1967, the Museum of Merchandise.
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Pienaar, Rousseau. "City building." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02212005-085046.
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Webb, Brittany. "Materializing Blackness: The Politics and Production of African Diasporic Heritage." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/504409.
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"Materializing Blackness: The Politics and Production of African Diasporic Heritage” examines how intellectual and civic histories collide with the larger trends in the arts and culture sector and the local political economy to produce exhibitions at the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and structure the work that museum exhibitions do to produce race visually for various audiences. Black museums are engaged in the social construction of race through their exhibitions and programs: selecting historical facts, objects and practices, and designating them as heritage for and to their audiences. In tracking this work, I am interested in 1) the assemblages of exhibits that are produced, as a function of 2) the internal logics of the producing institutions and 3) larger forces that structure the field as a whole. Looking at exhibits that engage Blackness, I examine how heritage institutions use art and artifacts to visually produce race, how their audiences consume it, and how the industry itself is produced as a viable consumptive market. Undergirded by the ways anthropologists of race and ethnicity have been explored and historicized race as a social construction I focus on an instantiation of the ways race is constructed in real time in the museum. This project engages deeply with inquiries about the social construction of race and Blackness, such as: how is Blackness rendered coherent by the art and artifacts in exhibitions? How are these visual displays of race a function of the museums that produce them and political economy of the field of arts and culture? Attending to the visual, intellectual, and political economic histories of networks of exhibiting institutions and based on ethnographic fieldwork in and on museums and other exhibiting institutions, this dissertation contextualizes and traces the production and circulation of the art and artifacts that produce the exhibitions and the museum itself as a way to provide a contemporary concrete answer. Overall “Materializing Blackness” makes the case for history and political economy as ghosts of production that have an outsized impact on what we see on exhibition walls, and are as important to the visual work as a result. Further it takes the Black museum as a site of anthropological engagement as a way to see the conjuncture of the aesthetic and the political, the historical and the material in one complicated node of institution building and racecraft in the neoliberal city.
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Odone, Ginevra. "L’avocat Agostino Mariotti (1724-1806) et son musée, « une des curiosités de Rome »." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2020. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/ulprive/DDOC_T_2020_0244_ODONE.pdf.
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L’abbé et avocat Agostino Mariotti (1724-1806) était bien connu dans la Rome du XVIIIe siècle. Comme la plupart des ecclésiastiques de son temps, il s’agissait d’abord d’un érudit : avocat de la Congrégation Sacrée des Rites, homme de lettres, fin connaisseur des langues latine et grecque, bibliophile, numismate, membre de l’Académie de l’Arcadie, mais aussi expert d’antiquités et grand collectionneur. En l’espace de plusieurs années il avait constitué une importante collection dont le noyau principal était formé par le musée Sacré. Avec celle-ci, particulièrement riche de peintures de toutes époques, Mariotti avait pour ambition de raconter aussi bien l’histoire de l’Église que la « Perfezione del disegno » en utilisant comme pivot l’œuvre de Michel-Ange.Ce travail de thèse vise d’abord à reconstruire la figure de l’avocat Mariotti et de sa collection, et de les mettre en perspective avec le contexte culturel de la ville de Rome au XVIIIe siècle. Les nouvelles sources retrouvées ont donc permis d’analyser la grande richesse de la collection, en complétant les informations disponibles sur cette figure aux multiples facettes, tombée presque entièrement dans l’oubli après sa mort, malgré les nombreuses œuvres de son recueil ayant rejoint les collections papales et se trouvant encore aujourd’hui conservées et exposées aux musées du Vatican.La première partie de la thèse reconstruit donc la biographie d’Agostino Mariotti, avec une attention particulière pour sa production littéraire et à ses relations avec les érudits italiens et étrangers de son temps. Son réseau est donc constitué principalement par des personnes avec lesquelles il partage ses lieux préférés de sociabilité, à savoir des religieux, des membres de l’Académie d’Arcadie, des artistes de l’Académie de Saint-Luc, ou encore des jésuites malgré le rôle joué par Agostino dans la suppression de l’Ordre.La deuxième partie se focalise sur la reconstruction de l’ensemble de la collection de Mariotti, partagée entre un musée Sacré, un musée Profane et un musée d’histoire naturelle. Les vastes sources documentaires retrouvées sont présentées et analysées afin de redonner au lecteur une image inédite et relativement exhaustive de cette riche et variée collection et ce, au-delà des seules peintures d’artistes « primitifs » pour lesquelles Agostino était connu jusqu’à nos jours.La dernière partie suit la dispersion des œuvres après la dissolution de la collection à la mort de son créateur. Une attention particulière est donnée à celles qui ont été vendues au Vatican en 1820, transaction pour laquelle nous disposons d’un grand nombre de sources documentaires et qui ont permis de connaître les estimations données lors de la vente. Une recherche complémentaire a aussi été menée pour identifier d’autres œuvres actuellement conservées aux Musées du Vatican.Grâce à notre travail, nous disposons maintenant d’une image bien plus accomplie de cet avocat consistorial et de sa collection qui était considérée à son époque comme « une des curiosités de Rome »Abbot and lawyer Agostino Mariotti (1724-1806) was well known in 18th century Rome. Like most of the ecclesiastics of his time, he was first of all a scholar: lawyer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, man of letters, expert of Latin and Greek languages, bibliophile, numismatist, member of the Academy of Arcadia and also specialist in antiques and great collector. Over the course of several years he had built up an important collection, the main core of which was the Sacred Museum. With his collection, particularly rich in paintings from all periods, Mariotti's project was to tell both the history of the Church and the “Perfezione del disegno”, using Michelangelo as a pivot.The aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the figure of the lawyer Mariotti and his collection, putting everything in perspective with the cultural context of the city of Rome in the 18th century. The new sources found have therefore made it possible to analyse the great richness of the collection, by supplementing the information available about this multifaceted figure, almost entirely forgotten after his death, despite many works of art from his collection has been acquired by the Pope and are still preserved and exhibited today in the Vatican Museums.The first part of the thesis therefore reconstructs the biography of Agostino Mariotti, with a particular attention to his literary production and his relationships with the Italian and foreign scholars of his time. His network is thus made up mainly of people with whom he shares his favourite places of sociability, namely religious, arcades, artists from the Academy of Saint Luke, or even Jesuits despite the role played by Agostino in the suppression of the Order.The second part focusses on the reconstruction of the entire collection of Mariotti, shared between a Sacred Museum, a Profane Museum and a Museum of Natural History. The vast documentary sources found are presented and analysed in order to give the reader a new and more complete picture of this rich and varied collection, beyond the only paintings of "primitive" artists for which Agostino was known until today.The last part follows the dispersion of the works of art after the dissolution of the collection on the death of its creator. Particular attention is given to those that were sold to the Vatican in 1820, a transaction for which we have a large number of documentary sources and which have also enabled us to know the estimates given during the sale. Further research was also carried out to identify other works currently kept in the Vatican Museums.Thanks to our work, we now have a much more accomplished image of this consistorial lawyer and his collection which in his time was considered "one of the curiosities of Rome"
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Jones, Stacey Elizabeth. "Why women's clothing? a critical history of clothing collections : a regional case study /." Connect to PDF file Connect to PDF file, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0009404.
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Ribeiro, Margarida Alexandra Tavares Mourato Pais. "Museu de arte contemporânea de Elvas( MACE): percurso museológico." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15360.
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O Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (MACE) faz parte de um recente grupo de museus de arte contemporânea, bem como de centros de arte moderna surgidos nos últimos anos em Portugal, procurando afirmarem-se, quer no tecido cultural das cidades onde se integram, quer no país em geral, com programas museológicos de qualidade. Inaugurado em 2007, o MACE afigura-se, tanto no contexto local como nacional com uma proposta positiva e inovadora, em torno do qual existem muitas expectativas. Trata-se, pois, do momento oportuno para reflectir sobre os primeiros anos da sua actividade. Entre as intenções e a realidade, qual é o estado da arte? Tendo como ponto de partida o trabalho que desenvolvi durante três anos no MACE, o qual acompanhou de perto, não apenas a sua implementação, mas também os primeiros anos de vida do museu, este trabalho pretende não só contar como surgiu este espaço museológico, mas também fazer uma análise crítica do trabalho até hoje realizado, reflectindo sobre o presente mas lançando também pistas de trabalho para o futuro; ABSTRACT:The Contemporary Art Museum in Elvas (MACE) is part of recent group of contemporary art museums as well as modern art centers that have recently been created in Portugal. They are trying to impose themselves in the different cultural aspects of the town or country they are in with museological programs of high quality. It officially opened in 2007 and has now an important role both in the local and national context presenting positive and innovative proposals from which many expectations are set. I think it’s time to think and reflect about the first years of its activity. Between the intentions and reality what is the state of art? As I have worked in this museum for three years I have seen not only its implementation but also its evolution. So, the aim of my study is to explain the way this museological space emerged and do a critical analysis of the work that has already been done there bearing in mind the present and laying the foundations for future projects.
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Petránková, Zuzana. "Marketingová strategie muzea umění / případová studie Vila a sbírka Panza." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197492.
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The subject of the Master's Thesis Arts Museum Marketing Strategy is a synthesis of theoretical basis from the arts marketing field and the development of marketing strategy of an art museum, supplemented by a specific analysis and draft of a new marketing strategy of the museum Villa and Collection Panza in northen Italy. The goal of this thesis is not only to summarise generally applicable theoretical concepts for the marketing strategy development or redesign of an art museum but especially its application on a particular example with a real potential of practical use. The theoretical part of this thesis was created by a systhesis of available literature while the practical part was primarily based on authors personal observation and interviewing from the position of a museum trainee.
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Morinière, Soline. "Laboratoires artistiques : genèse des collections de tirages en plâtre dans les universités françaises (1876-1914)." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30010.
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Institué par décret du 21 décembre 1886, le premier « musée de moulages » universitaire français ouvre ses portes à la faculté des lettres de Bordeaux. En moins de vingt ans, des musées similaires fleurissent dans tous les grands centres universitaires français à Montpellier, Toulouse, Lille, Paris, Lyon, Nancy et des collections de moindre importance à Aix-en-Provence, Besançon, Caen, Dijon, Grenoble, Poitiers et Rennes. Copies de chefs d’œuvres de l’antiquité grecque et romaine, de spécimens égyptiens et orientaux, et d’œuvres d’art médiévales et renaissantes se côtoient dans un même lieu, au cœur des établissements d’enseignement supérieur. Ces musées sont le symbole de la profonde réforme de l’enseignement par le gouvernement français de la Troisième République, de l’institutionnalisation des disciplines archéologiques et d’histoire de l’art. Leur installation fut rendue possible par la vague de constructions publiques du XIXe siècle où des « palais des Facultés » ont été édifiés dans chaque grand centre universitaire français. Les locaux plus grands ont ainsi permis la mise en place de ces collections d’études, essentielles pour l’enseignement des disciplines dans la plus stricte rigueur scientifique, une rigueur développée par le système allemand qui possédait des collections similaires depuis près d’un siècle. Ces musées sont également les témoins de l’essor des découvertes archéologiques en Grèce et en Asie Mineure au XIXe siècle, des nouvelles études consacrées à l’Orient, l’Égypte, l’Espagne ibérique, de l’intérêt pour l’art renaissant et moderne qui prône le retour à l’antique, et de la réhabilitation de l’art médiéval dans les esprits de l’époque. S’intéressant à l’histoire des enseignements, de l’archéologie et du patrimoine, dans un contexte historique particulier, cette étude vise à retracer la constitution et à définir le(s) rôle(s) de ces collections de tirages en plâtre universitaires françaises dont il reste encore de nos jours de nombreux vestigesCreated by a decree on the 21st of December 1886, the first university plaster casts museum opened its doors in the Faculty of Arts in Bordeaux. In less than 20 years, similar museums were created in all the most important French universities, such as Montpellier, Toulouse, Lille, Paris, Lyon, Nancy. Minor collections took place in Aix-en-Provence, Besançon, Caen, Dijon, Grenoble, Poitiers and Rennes. Copies of Greek and Roman antiquity masterpieces, Egyptian and Oriental specimens, medieval and modern works of arts were in the same place, in the heart of higher education institutions. These museums were the symbol of the deep educational reform by the French Third Republic government, of the institutionalization of archeology and History of Arts. The context of great public rebuildings in the late 19th century when many “Palais des Facultés” were created, enabled the blooming of these collections. Greater buildings enabled the settlement of these collections. These were essential for the study of these subjects with scientific rigor, developed by the German system which had similar collections for almost a century. These museums were also the window of the archeological discoveries in Greece and Minor Asia in the 19th century, of new studies about the East, Egypt and Spain Iberian, of interest in Renaissance and modern art, in the recovery of medieval art. This study aims at tracing the building of plaster cast collections and their role in the French universities. It takes place in a particular historical context and deals with several subjects such as History, archeology and heritage
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Nastari, Danielle Misura. "A gênese da coleção de arte brasileira do MoMA: a década de 1940, Portinari e artistas seguintes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/93/93131/tde-07032017-102630/.
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Este trabalho apresenta uma investigação pioneira dos encadeamentos que conduziram a formação da coleção de arte brasileira do Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova York (MoMA), buscando desvendar os fatores que levaram peças nacionais a serem incorporadas ao acervo da proeminente instituição americana, partindo da primeira aquisição em 1939 e mapeando todos os ingressos ao longo dos anos 1940. O objetivo central do estudo é compreender os processos históricos que direcionaram a aquisição e permitiram a recepção das obras por parte da instituição no período investigado, bem como os fatores que permitiram que ela divulgasse a arte brasileira no contexto cultural americano no decênio de 1940.This study presents a pioneering effort to set out the formation processes of the Museum of Modern Art in Ney York (MoMA) Brazilian art collection, revealing the sequence of events that lead artworks from Brazil to be acquired by this institution from 1939 to 1949. Its aim is to understand the historical scenarios that allowed these artworks to be received by the museum in the delimited time, as well as to comprehend the reasons that propelled MoMA to promote Brazilian art in the 1940s. The investigation work was based on correspondence of key people in this process Nelson Rockefeller, Alfred H. Barr Jr., Lincoln Kirstein and Cândido Portinari as well as on documents produced by the MoMA; the results of this research opens new possibilities of understanding the relations between Brazil and the United States, in the fields of art, culture and politics.
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Signorelli, Paula Rodrigues Alves. "O Panorama da Arte Brasileira do MAM SP: da formação de acervo aos projetos curatoriais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/93/93131/tde-29062018-103759/.
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Esta dissertação tem como objeto o programa de exposições intitulado Panorama da Arte Brasileira, criado pelo Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM SP) em 1969 após a transferência de seu acervo para a Universidade de São Paulo. O Panorama tinha como objetivo restabelecer a programação e, ao mesmo tempo, gerar um novo acervo para a instituição por meio da aquisição e da doação de obras a cada edição. A importância do Panorama para o reerguimento do museu e para a renovação de sua relação com o meio cultural justifica a pertinência deste estudo. Tomando como principal material de análise os textos curatoriais, discute-se como as premissas do programa, fundamentadas nos termos panorama, arte brasileira e atual, provocaram respostas distintas por parte dos curadores convidados ao longo dos anos. Parte-se da hipótese de que teria havido uma mudança de paradigma, iniciada em meados da década de 1990, que se consolidaria na virada dos anos 2000, quando o programa passa a ser curado por profissionais sem relação institucional com o MAM SP. A pesquisa aponta que ao longo desse período os discursos curatoriais tornaram-se autorreferentes e que a ideia de atual deixou de se relacionar aos trabalhos expostos e passou a materializar não só um pensamento crítico sobre eles, mas também uma reflexão mais ampla sobre a arte contemporânea brasileira e sua relação com a tradição modernista. Por fim, foi possível concluir que, a partir dos anos 2000, a problematização de uma espécie de mito de origem da arte contemporânea brasileira tornou-se recorrente no Panorama da Arte Brasileira e que os discursos curatoriais passaram a adotar o modernismo como o principal parâmetro para se pensar as características do que seria, ou no que se diferenciava, a arte nacional.The focus of this dissertation is the program of exhibitions entitled Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Panorama of Brazilian Art) created by the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM SP) in 1969, after its collection was transferred to the University of São Paulo. The objective of the Panorama was to reestablish the program and, at the same time, create a new collection for the institution through acquisitions and donations of works to each edition. The importance of the Panorama to the reemergence of the museum and the renewal of its relationship with the cultural milieu justifies the focus of this study. Analyzing primarily curatorial texts, the study discusses how the premises of the program, founded on the terms panorama, Brazilian art and current, resulted in different responses from the guest curators over the years. It is based on the theory that there has been a change in paradigm, which began in the mid-1990s, and consolidated at the turn of the millennium, when the program began to be curated without an institutional relationship with MAM SP. The study shows that over this period the curatorial discourse became increasingly self-referencing and that the idea of current was no longer related to the works on exhibit and began to manifest, not only critical thought about them, but also a broader reflection on contemporary Brazilian art and its relationship with the modernist tradition. Finally, it was possible to conclude that, starting in the 2000s, questions surrounding a myth of origin of Brazilian contemporary art became recurrent in the Panorama of Brazilian Art and that the curatorial discourse began to adopt Modernism as the main parameter when considering the characteristics of what is national art.
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Batistin, Fabíola. "Poema tridimensional: proposições a partir da coleção de Theon Spanudis." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2014. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2079.
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This paper have started from the research collection of the art critic, poet, psychoanalyst, teacher and collector Theon Spanudis and its safeguard upheld on two institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art - MAC/USP and Brazilian Studies Institute - IEB / USP. The collection consisting of 453 frames was partially donated to the MAC / USP in 1979 and concluded only after the death of Spanudis in 1986. The Fund Theon Spanudis of IEB / USP was created with the aim of cataloging the donated literary material (poetry books, manuscripts, texts, exhibition catalogs) for further public consultation. The wealth of material, an unprecedented documentary and little explored in their study resulted in a didactic split into three research areas (the transcendence of art, the artists and brands poetic didactic bias of the collection ) in order to better understand Theon Spanudis collection. The museum education boosted the composition and purpose of a curatorial project uniting the many actions of Theon as a critic, poet and collector. Thus, artists within the collection, poems, excerpts from letters and manuscripts, in order to think of the use of part of the collection as a base material for educational activities inside and outside the art museums were selected: one three-dimensional casts a Poem broad horizon to so many other collections that may incur in the same poetic way.
O presente trabalho partiu da investigação da coleção do crítico de arte, poeta, psicanalista, professor e colecionador Theon Spanudis e de sua salvaguarda acolhida sobre duas instituições: Museu de Arte contemporânea MAC/USP e o Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros IEB/USP. A coleção, composta de 453 quadros, foi doada parcialmente no MAC/USP em 1979 e somente concluída após a morte de Spanudis em 1986. O Fundo de Acervo Theon Spanudis no IEB/USP, foi criado com o intuito de catalogação do material literário doado (livros de poesia, manuscritos, textos, catálogos de exposição) para posterior consulta pública. A riqueza do material, um corpus documental inédito e pouco explorado em seu estudo deram origem a uma separação didática em três eixos de investigação (a transcendência da arte, as marcas poéticas do artistas e o viés didático da coleção) com a finalidade de melhor compreender a Coleção Theon Spanudis. A educação museal impulsionou a composição e a proposta de um projeto curatorial unindo as muitas ações de Theon como crítico, mecenas, poeta, colecionador. Assim, foram selecionados artistas dentro da coleção, poemas, trechos de cartas e de textos manuscritos, com o intuito de pensar o uso de parte da coleção como material de base para ações educativas dentro e fora dos museus de arte: um Poema Tridimensional lança um horizonte amplo a tantas outras coleções que possam incorrer num mesmo caminho poético.
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Hahne, Ylva. "Den blinda röda fläcken : Menstruation i svenska museisamlingar." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-453333.
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Denna studie undersöker förekomsten av kulturarv rörande menstruation i svenska museisamlingar samt i vilka samband de har deltagit i utställningar eller på annat sätt exponerats för allmänheten. Undersökningen ämnar även ta reda på om tabu relaterat till menstruation påverkat insamlingen och exponeringen av de såkallade ”menstruationsföremålen”. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av en enkätundersökning utskickad till vad som kan sägas vara det allmänna museiväsendet i Sverige bestående av centralmuseum, regionala museum, kommunala museum, stadsmuseum samt ytterligare tre kulturhistoriska museum med en svarsfrekvens på 85,4% då 81 av 96 museum har deltagit. Studien visar att 50,6% av museerna har menstruationsföremål i samlingarna och att majoriteten av dessa hade cirka 1-5 stycken sådana och att den absolut vanligast förekommande föremålskategorin var menstruationsskydd. 64,8% av museer med menstruationsföremål i samlingarna hade exponerat dessa för allmänheten, oftast bara ett fåtal föremål och det vanligast förekommande utställningsformatet var tillfälliga utställningar. Majoriteten av menstruationsföremålen har förvärvats åren 1951-2021. Huruvida menstruationstabut har påverkat förekomsten av kulturarv rörande menstruation i svenska museum är svårt att utröna baserat på denna studie. Däremot kan tabut ha påverkat vilken sorts föremål som finns i museernas samlingar då det mesta materialet utgörs av menstruationsskydd vars uppgift att kontrollera mensflödet kan spegla samhällets förhållande till menstruation som ofta utgörs av skamkänslor inför ämnet.This study examines the existence of cultural heritage concerning menstruation in Swedish museum collections and in which contexts they have participated in exhibitions or been otherwise exposed to the public. The study also intends to find out whether taboos related to menstruation have affected the collection and exposure of the so-called "menstrual items". The empirical material consists of a survey sent to what can be said to be the general museum system in Sweden consisting of central museum, regional museum, municipal museum, city museum and three other cultural history museums with a response rate of 85.4% as 81 of 96 museums have participated. The study shows that 50.6% of the museums have menstrual items in the collections and that the majority of these museums had approximately 1-5 of such items. The most common item category was menstrual protection. 64.8% of museums with menstrual objects in the collections had exposed these to the public, usually only a few objects and the most common exhibition format was temporary exhibitions. The majority of menstrual items have been acquired in the years 1951-2021. Whether menstrual taboos have affected the existence of cultural heritage concerning menstruation in Swedish museums is difficult to ascertain based on this study. On the other hand, taboos may have affected the type of objects in museums' collections, as most of the material consists of menstrual protection, the task of which is to control the flow of menstruation, which may reflect society's relationship to menstruation, which often consists of feelings of shame about the subject.
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Jouves, Barbara. "La conservation et la restauration des tableaux des collections privées à Paris (1789-1870)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H070.
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Préoccupés par la conservation de leurs collections de peintures, les amateurs d’art parisiens font appel, entre 1789 et 1870, aux restaurateurs de tableaux, ces derniers relevant d’une profession qui, à la même époque, se définit indépendamment de celles du marchand, de l’expert ou même du peintre. Si le restaurateur intervient sur les œuvres du particulier, il joue, par ailleurs, pour l’amateur, un rôle de guide dans sa connaissance, voire dans son apprentissage, des procédés picturaux. Progressivement, cette prise en compte de la matérialité de l’œuvre contribue à intégrer le collectionneur au sein des commissions muséales en tant que conseiller, avant qu’il n’acquière un statut privilégié au musée à partir des années 1860 par le legs de ses œuvresConcerned about the conservation of their art collections, in the years between 1789 and 1870, Parisian amateurs called upon the services of painting restorers, who, at that time, belonged to a profession considered quite separate from that of art dealer, expert or even painter. While the restorer worked on paintings belonging to private collectors, he also acted as a guide for the latter, broadening their knowledge of Ŕ or even teaching them about Ŕ pictorial techniques. This understanding of the materiality of artworks gradually contributed to collectors being invited into museum committees as advisors, before they acquired a privileged status in museums, from the 1860s onwards, by bequeathing their collections
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Rawson, Helen C. "Treasures of the University : an examination of the identification, presentation and responses to artefacts of significance at the University of St Andrews, from 1410 to the mid-19th century, with an additional consideration of the development of the portrait collection to the early 21st century." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/990.
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Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by the University, and have been displayed or otherwise presented in a context in which this status has been made apparent. The types of artefacts in which particular meaning has been vested during the centuries under consideration include items of silver and gold (including the maces, sacramental vessels of the Collegiate Church of St Salvator, collegiate plate and relics of the Silver Arrow archery competition); church and college furnishings; artworks (particularly portraits); sculpture; and ethnographic specimens and other items described in University records as ‘curiosities’ held in the University Library from c. 1700-1838. The identification of particular artefacts as significant for certain reasons in certain periods, and their presentation and display, may to some extent reflect the University's values, preoccupations and aspirations in these periods, and, to some degree, its identity. Consciously or subconsciously, the objects can be employed or operate as signifiers of meaning, representing or reflecting matters such as the status, authority and history of the University, its breadth of learning and its interest and influence in spheres from science, art and world cultures to national affairs. This thesis provides a comprehensive examination of the growth and development of the University's holdings of 'artefacts of significance' from its foundation to the mid-19th century, and in some cases (especially portraits) beyond this date. It also offers insights into how the University viewed and presented these items and what this reveals about the University of St Andrews, its identity, which changed and developed as the living institution evolved, and the impressions that it wished to project.
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Berriola, Riccardo. "Les terres cuites figurées de la collection Raffaele Gargiulo au Musée National de Naples : recherches sur le goût et le marché de l'art dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100194.
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La these analyse la collection de terre cuite de Raffaele Gargiulo (1785-après 1864), céramiste et restaurateur affirmé, personnage de première importance du Musée de Naples, marchand napolitain d'antiquité des années 20 et 30 du XIXe siècle. La proposition de vente de sa collection au Musée de Naples est faite en décembre 1852. Après deux années de dures négociations le 29 mai 1855 la vente se conclut pour 6000 ducats. Pour comprendre le personnage de Gargiulo en tant que marchand d'oeuvre d'art, 315 documents, conservés dans l'Archive d'État de Naples et la Surintendance de Naples, ont èté analysés. L'étude de 11 arrêtés royaux entrés en vigueur entre 1807 et 1852, ont permis de reconstruire le cadre législatif en vigueur de l'époque. La petite plastique, la classe la plus nombreuse, représente environ les trois quarts de la collection de terre cuite. En ce qui concerne les provenances, les Pouilles et la Campanie sont largement dominantes avec 578 objets (95.54% de la collection entière): dans le détail on note que les localités se trouvant aux premières places sont aussi bien les Pouilles (Gnathia, Ruvo et Canosa) que la Campanie (Capoue et Calès), plus célèbres pour les fabrications coroplastiques. Le matériel architectonique va de la fin du VIe s. av. J.- C. au I Ier s. ap. J.-C., le matériel coroplastique se situe entre la moitié du IVe s. et la fin du IIIe s. av. J.-C., la céramique à décoration plastique et polychrome et celle achrome entre le IVe et le IIIe s. av. J.-C., alors que la chronologie des vases modelés va de la fin du VIe et le IIIe s. av. J.-C. Enfin, les lampes à huile sont toutes datées entre la première moitié et le dernier quart du Ier s. ap. J.-CThe thesis analyzes the collection of terracottas of Raffaele Gargiulo (1785-after 1864), ceramist and restorer, leading figure of the Museum of Naples, neapolitan merchant of antiquity in the twenties and thirties of the 19th century. The proposed sale to the Museum of Naples of his collection is made in December 1852, but only after more than two years of hard deals it comes to the purchase on May 29th, 1855, for 6000 ducats. In order to understand the figure of Gargiulo as merchant of art 315 documents, kept in the State Archive of Naples and in the Historical Archive of the Archaeological Superintendence of Naples, have been analyzed. By the study of 11 royal decrees dated between 1807 and 1852 the legislative framework in force at the time was rebuilt, as part of the trade and export of archaeological and art objects. In the Gargiulo’s collection of terracottas the little plastic (443 specimens, 73.88%) is the most documented class, accounting for about three-quarters of the collection. About the provenances, Apulia and Campania with 578 items, the 95.54%, prevail. At the top lie the towns, both in Apulia (Gnathia, Ruvo and Canosa) and Campania (Capua and Cales), most famous for the coroplastic products. If the architectural material is dated from the end of the 6th century BC to 1st century AD, the coroplastic material lies mostly between the mid-4th century BC and the end of the 3rd BC. The pottery ranges between the 4th century and 3rd century BC, especially the plastic and polychrome decoration and the achromatic ceramic; the chronology of plastic vessels is more varied, between the late 6th and 3rd centuries BC. The lamps, finally, are dated to 1st century AD
La tesi analizza la collezione di terrecotte di Raffaele Gargiulo (1785-post 1864), ceramista e restauratore affermato, figura di primo piano del Museo di Napoli, grande mercante napoletano di antichità degli anni Venti e Trenta dell'Ottocento. La proposta di vendita al Museo di Napoli della sua collezione viene fatta nel dicembre del 1852, ma dopo oltre due anni si giunge all'acquisto, il 29 maggio 1855, per seimila ducati. Per inquadrare la figura del Gargiulo come mercante di opere d'arte sono stati analizzati 315 documenti custoditi nell'Archivio di Stato di Napoli e nell'Archivio Storico della Soprintendenza Archeologica di Napoli. Attraverso lo studio di 11 regi decreti tra il 1807 e il 1852 si è ricostruito il quadro legislativo in vigore all'epoca nell'ambito del commercio e dell'esportazione di reperti archeologici e oggetti d'arte. Nella collezione Gargiulo di terrecotte la piccola plastica (443 esemplari, pari al 73.88%) è la classe più documentata, rappresentando circa i tre quarti della collezione. Tra le provenienze prevalgono la Puglia e la Campania con 578 oggetti, il 95.54%. Ai primi posti si collocano le località, sia pugliesi (Egnazia, Ruvo e Canosa) che campane (Capua e Cales), più celebri per i prodotti coroplastici. Se il materiale architettonico va dalla fine del VI a.C. al I d.C., quello coroplastico si colloca per lo più tra la metà del IV e la fine del III a.C. La ceramica spazia tra il IV e il III secolo a.C., soprattutto per la ceramica a decorazione plastica e policroma e per quella acroma, più varia è la cronologia dei vasi plastici, tra la fine del VI e il III a.C. Le lucerne, infine, si datano nell'ambito del I secolo d.C
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Huang, Michelle Ying Ling. "The reception of Chinese painting in Britain, circa 1880-1920 : with special reference to Laurence Binyon." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1020.
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The British understanding of Chinese painting owed much to Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) who enriched the British Museum’s collections of Oriental painting, and for almost forty years, published widely and delivered lectures in Britain and abroad. Binyon’s legacy is to be found in several archival resources scattered in Britain, America, Japan and China. This dissertation is a study of the reception of Chinese painting in early twentieth century Britain, and examines Binyon’s contribution to its appreciation and criticism in the West. By examining the William Anderson collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings (1881), I illuminate Anderson’s way of seeing Chinese pictorial art and his influence on Binyon’s early study of Oriental painting. I argue that the early scroll, The Admonitions of the Court Instructress, which Binyon encountered in 1903, ignited his interest in the study of traditional Chinese painting, yet his conception of Chinese pictorial art was influenced by Japanese and Western expertise. To reveal the British taste and growing interest in Chinese painting around 1910, Binyon’s involvements in major acquisitions and exhibitions of Chinese paintings at the British Museum, including the Sir Aurel Stein collection (1909) and the Frau Olga-Julia Wegener collection (1910), as well as his visits to Western collections of Chinese art in America and Germany, will be investigated. In order to understand the relevance and values of Chinese painting for the development of early twentieth-century British art, I also scrutinize how the principle of “rhythmic vitality” or qiyun shengdong, as well as the Daoist-and Zen-inspired aesthetic ideas were assiduously promoted in Binyon’s writings on Chinese painting, and how Chinese art and thought kindled British modernists to fuse art with life in order to re-vitalize the spirit of modern European art with non-scientific conceptions.