A history of the Smithsonian American Art Museum : the intersection of art, science, and bureaucracy /

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"Dedicated to the art of the United States, the Smithsonian American Art Museum contains works by more than 7,000 artists and is widely regarded as an invaluable resource for the study and preservation of the nation's cultural heritage. But as Lois Marie Fink shows in this probing narrativ...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Fink, Lois Marie
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2007.
Sujets:
Smithsonian American Art Museum > History.
Smithsonian American Art Museum > Histoire.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
HISTORY > Social History.
Kunstmusea.
Smithsonian Institute.
Washington (D.C.)
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Art as knowledge
  • Exhibiting the evolution of culture
  • Definig art for the nation in two national galleries
  • Rejecting modern art for Washington, 1930s-1960s
  • Opening a new era for art at the Smithsonian, 1960s-1980
  • Looking back to beginnings
  • Pre-Smithsonian sources of the SAAM collection
  • Museum titles
  • Buildings of the Museum
  • Proposed designs for buildings
  • Directors of the Museum
  • Smithsonian secretaries
  • Smithsonian Board of Regents.

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