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Author:   Simon Knell (University of Leicester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781138182233

ISBN 10:   1138182230
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   25 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Plates List of Figures INTRODUCTION 1. Picturing the national gallery Budapest 2012 Embarking on a new journey Defining the national gallery Redefining and complicating the definition Boundary institutions Putting the nation in the gallery Nations, the national and the international The political agency of national galleries The national gallery and the art-nation ART NATION GALLERY 2. Entangling art and nation Oslo 2011 Isolating artists Subjects and essences Citizens and foreigners Inscription and entombment Making up stories Respecting the nation 3. National and international art London 2013 Accumulating masterpieces An authored geography An idiosyncratic inheritance Appropriation and moral purpose The nation as a moral good The psychology of taste HISTORIES GEOGRAPHIES 4. The Invention of national galleries London 1629 The National Gallery The Louvre Nationalising the royal museum National galleries as projects of unification National galleries and the fight for independence State art museums, ideology and control Fanaticism and the national gallery National galleries and fragmenting nations Diverse invention 5. An idea in global translation Mexico City 2000 Latin America The British model abroad Speaking to the world Censorship, propaganda and freedom The independent nation Building a better world ARCHITECTURE CURATION 6. Buildings in cities Canberra 2010 The curated city or the body of the nation An aesthetic paradigm A functional ideal Galleries for the nation Function and nation Brutalism, blandness and bling Strange appropriations 7. Performances in space London 2013 Harmonic agency Movement and culmination Scale, spectacle, transcendence and the sublime Inserting the nation Storied space Political maps of culture Convention and invention NATIONAL GALLERIES NATIONAL ART 8. Making national art Tirana 2012 State realisms in Russia, Germany and China Academic nationalism in Poland The Prado and the invention of the Spanish tradition National art perfected: Canada’s Group of Seven 9. Admitting complexity Guernica 1937 Impressionism, Australia and the national artist Internationalism and the Hungarian Fauves Contesting New Zealand’s Colin McCahon America’s inclusive abstraction and Latino art Beyond nation, beyond art: Indigenous Australia

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The book is a welcome contribution to the project of `making strange' the naturalized cultural forms, practices and assumptions associated with national galleries. In an eminently readable and engaging compendium of thematic perspectives and critical accounts, Knell reveals some of the vast and usually unremarked differences between national galleries. Through a comparative framework he attends sensitively to their situated peculiarities and to their political contexts and roles, providing new insights into the ways in which interrelated ideas of art and the nation have historically been constructed in the institutional remits, rhetoric, collections and space of museums. Achieving a uniquely wide and comparative perspective only available to the near-constant traveller, Knell has provided a landmark study for the understanding of national galleries. Christopher Whitehead, Professor of Museology, Newcastle University, UK A welcome survey of the development and meaning of national galleries of art beyond the familiar institutional histories of western Europe and the United States of America. Professor Helen Rees Leahy, University of Manchester Covering a broad range of histories and institutions, Knell tackles the subject of national galleries with clarity and aplomb. The text is supported by 41 black-and-white images and 15 color plates, many taken by the author, a thorough index, and ample notes... Useful to those interested in museum studies, collecting histories, national identity, material and cultural heritage, and related fields in the fine arts.Summing Up: Recommended - J. Decker, CHOICE Reviews

'The book is a welcome contribution to the project of 'making strange' the naturalized cultural forms, practices and assumptions associated with national galleries. In an eminently readable and engaging compendium of thematic perspectives and critical accounts, Knell reveals some of the vast and usually unremarked differences between national galleries. Through a comparative framework he attends sensitively to their situated peculiarities and to their political contexts and roles, providing new insights into the ways in which interrelated ideas of art and the nation have historically been constructed in the institutional remits, rhetoric, collections and space of museums. Achieving a uniquely wide and comparative perspective only available to the near-constant traveller, Knell has provided a landmark study for the understanding of national galleries.' Christopher Whitehead, Professor of Museology, Newcastle University, UK A welcome survey of the development and meaning of national galleries of art beyond the familiar institutional histories of western Europe and the United States of America. Professor Helen Rees Leahy, University of Manchester

The book is a welcome contribution to the project of 'making strange' the naturalized cultural forms, practices and assumptions associated with national galleries. In an eminently readable and engaging compendium of thematic perspectives and critical accounts, Knell reveals some of the vast and usually unremarked differences between national galleries. Through a comparative framework he attends sensitively to their situated peculiarities and to their political contexts and roles, providing new insights into the ways in which interrelated ideas of art and the nation have historically been constructed in the institutional remits, rhetoric, collections and space of museums. Achieving a uniquely wide and comparative perspective only available to the near-constant traveller, Knell has provided a landmark study for the understanding of national galleries. Christopher Whitehead, Professor of Museology, Newcastle University, UK A welcome survey of the development and meaning of national galleries of art beyond the familiar institutional histories of western Europe and the United States of America. Professor Helen Rees Leahy, University of Manchester

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Simon Knell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies, UK.

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