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A History of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Bureaucracy
Lois Marie Fink
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Hardcover. Dedicated to the art of the United States, the Smithsonian American Art Museum contains works by more than 7,000 artists. This work recounts its history from 1846 to 1980. It also unravels the various levels of institutional authority, power, governance, and bureaucracy and shows how people at each level influenced the fortunes of the collection. Num Pages: 240 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AGC; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 662.
This is the story of the evolution of the nation's first official art collection. 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 narrative, the history of the museum is hardly one of steady progress. Instead, it reads like a nineteenth-century melodrama, replete with villains and heroes, destruction by fire, dashed hopes, and periods of subsistence survival - all leading eventually to ... Read more
This is the story of the evolution of the nation's first official art collection. 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 narrative, the history of the museum is hardly one of steady progress. Instead, it reads like a nineteenth-century melodrama, replete with villains and heroes, destruction by fire, dashed hopes, and periods of subsistence survival - all leading eventually to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558496163
SKU
V9781558496163
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About Lois Marie Fink
Author of American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, LOIS MARIE FINK is research curator emerita at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she worked for twenty-three years.
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