The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition - Hardcover

$113.40

The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition - Hardcover

Name: The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition - Hardcover
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by Francis Haskell

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When and why did large-scale exhibitions of Old Master paintings begin, and how have they evolved through the centuries? In this book an eminent art historian examines the intriguing history and significance of these international art exhibitions.

Francis Haskell begins by discussing the first "Old Master" exhibitions in Rome and Florence in the seventeenth century and then moves to eighteenth-century France and the efforts to organize exhibitions of contemporary art that would be an alternative to the official ones held by the Salon. He next describes the role of the British Institution in London and the series of remarkable loan exhibitions of Old Master paintings there. He traces the emergence of such nationalist exhibitions as the Rembrandt exhibition held in Amsterdam in 1898, the first modern "blockbuster" exhibit. Demonstrating how the international loan exhibition was a vehicle of foreign and cultural policy after the First World War, he gives a fascinating account of several of these, for example the Italian Art exhibition held at Burlington House in 1930 (Botticelli in the Service of Fascism). He describes the initial reluctance of major museums to send pictures on potentially damaging journeys and explains how this feeling gave way to cautious enthusiasm. Finally, in a polemical chapter, he explores the type of publications associated with exhibitions and with the criticism and scholarship that have centered upon them.

Number of Pages: 224

Dimensions: 0.82 x 9.52 x 6.43 IN

Illustrated: Yes

Publication Date: November 10, 2000

ISBN	9780300085341
Author	Francis Haskell
Publisher	Yale University Press
Genre	Arts and History
Format	Hardcover
Published	November 2000
Language	ENG- English
Pages	224
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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