Art of memories : curating at the Hermitage /

In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage's curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavily invested in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lépinay, Vincent Antonin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) > Officials and employees.
Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Art museums > Social aspects > Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg.
Corporate culture > Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg.
Culture organisationnelle > Russie > Saint-Pétersbourg.
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections
ART / Museum Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Art museums > Social aspects
Corporate culture
Employees
Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Hermitage, a cultural laboratory
  • Moving objects
  • Interlude 1 : art history and Hermitage before World War II
  • Documenting the museum
  • Art history from the collections up
  • Interlude 2: mobility at Hermitage
  • The nostalgic modesty of Hermitage restorers
  • Guides : taking science down the galleries
  • Spaces and surprises: technologies of vision for a long winter
  • Conclusion : secreting documents.

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