ART MUSEUM HISTORY
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Art Museum History
Museums have developed to be essential features of every nation or city. However, several people do not understand what happens in public museums. Civilizing Rituals discusses art museums from a different viewpoint. It treats art museums as traditional settings in individuals’ rights and as artifacts of culture that are, to a great extent, beyond neutral art shelter (Duncan, 2005, 9). Duncan draws her discussion from both philosophical and anthropological literature. She starts by looking at the art museum as customary. She studies various museum rituals in the United States, France, and Britain comprising the museum of current art, the Metropolitan Art Museum, the Louvre, the National London Gallery, and many donor monuments. Carol observed memorials concerning their social and political context and captured all the details concerning the museum’s settings. She demonstrates how museums involve their guests in the presentation of ordinary circumstances, and through these scenarios, values, social identities, and ideas are affirmed and communicated.
Similarly, public museums frequently stimulate arguments when they sell the artwork from collections, which officially removes arts from permanent collections. Through deaccessioning artworks, the museums are accused of betraying the public trust and civic virtue (Peterson, 2014, 275). In her book, Marie claims that for centuries, the process has been a vital constituent of museum experiments. She provides a deaccessioning history by museums starting from the 17th to 20th century as well as uncovering the inflated limits of its denial. The apparent assumption that artwork deaccession is a bad habit is revealed in this book. Museums often find faults in the item to justify removing artworks from their collections. The book records several deaccession events in the United States and Britain and transitions from beneficial to disastrous. The book finally proposes clear codes to guide future deaccessioning.
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Duncan, C., 2005. Civilizing rituals: inside public art museums. Routledge.
Paterson, R.K., 2014. The art of the sale: museums and deaccessioning. In Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market (pp. 273-295). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
