French Art for All! Museum Projects in Africa 1912–1931 between Avant-garde and Colonialism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Content v
3. Towards a Transnational History of Museums. An Introduction 1
4. Museums and the Transnational Circuits of Artefacts
5. The Ancient Near East in Storage. Assyrian Museum Objects as a Cultural Challenge in Victorian England 19
6. Competition, Exchange, Comparison. Nineteenth-Century Cast Museums in Transnational Perspective 31
7. Reproduced Art. Early Photographic Campaigns in European Collections 45
8. Cross-border Transfers of Architectural Models and Display Principles
9. Top Lighting from Paris in 1750 61
10. A European Museum-Cocktail around 1900. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow 77
11. The Journal Mouseion as Means of Transnational Culture. Guglielmo Pacchioni and the Dawn of the “Modern Museum” in Italy 89
12. Close Inspections of the “Other.” Commissions and Experts on Tour
13. Cultural Excursions 103
14. From Model Museum to the Fear of the Uhlan. Museum Relations between France and Germany during the Second Empire 117
15. Admiration and Fear. The Reports of Marius Vachon on Museums of Industrial Arts in Europe 131
16. Cosmopolitan Scholar, Servant of Art. Transnational Contexts of Igor Grabar in Early Twentieth-Century Russia 147
17. Reforming the Museum – A Supranational Project
18. Art Beyond the Nation A European Vision for the National Gallery 165
19. The Journal Museumskunde – “Another Link between the Museums of the World” 179
20. Between Museumsinsel and Manhattan. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Ambassador and Agent of Wilhelm von Bode at the Metropolitan Museum, 1908–1914 191
21. The German Museum Curators and the International Museums Office, 1926–1937 205
22. Museums as Transnational Sites for National Identities
23. Building on the London 1881 Pretext 221
24. Museum as a Transnational Space for National Identities. A Case Study on the Turkish Experience 233
25. French Art for All! Museum Projects in Africa 1912–1931 between Avant-garde and Colonialism 245
26. Illustration credits 259
27. Index 261
28. Acknowledgements 266