5 Art Museum Narratives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. acknowledgments ix
4. overture 1
5. 1 ‘‘Beauty and Art, History and Fame and Power’’: On Entering the Louvre 17
6. 2 Art and Power: Time Travel in the Museum 39
7. 3 Museum Skeptics 51
8. 4 Picturing Museum Skepticism 74
9. 5 Art Museum Narratives 91
10. 6 Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Museum 110
11. 7 Ernest Fenollosa’s History of Asian Art 126
12. 8 Albert Barnes’s Foundation and the Place of Modernist Art within the Art Museum 146
13. 9 The Display of Absolutely Contemporary Art in the J. Paul Getty Museum 165
14. 10 The End of the Modern Public Art Museum: A Tale of Two Cities 181
15. conclusion: What the Public Art Museum Might Become 208
16. notes 225
17. bibliography 269
18. index 305