Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum
Title | Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Abt |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2017-03-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3319452193 |
This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and political development of Detroit, giving a history of the city as well as of the institution, and providing a model of contextual institutional history. Abt describes how the Detroit Institute of Arts became the fifth largest art museum in America, from its founding as a private non-profit corporation in 1885 to its transformation into a municipal department in 1919, through the subsequent decades of extraordinary collections and facilities growth coupled with the repeated setbacks of government funding cuts during economic downturns. Detroit's 2013 bankruptcy underscored the nearly 130 years of fiscal missteps and false assumptions that rendered the museum particularly vulnerable to the monetary power of a global art investment community eager to capitalize on the city's failures and its creditors' demands. This is a remarkable and important contribution to many fields, including non-profit management and economics, cultural policy, museum and urban history, and the histories of both the Detroit Institute of Arts and the city of Detroit itself. Despite the museum's unique history, its story offers valuable lessons for anyone concerned about the future of art museums in the United States and abroad.
Treasures of the DIA
Title | Treasures of the DIA PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit Institute of Arts |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014-12-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780895581723 |
A Brief History of the Detroit Museum of Art and Its Collections
Title | A Brief History of the Detroit Museum of Art and Its Collections PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit Museum of Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art
Title | Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit Museum of Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Detroit Institute of Arts and Its Parent Organization the Detroit Museum of Art
Title | The Detroit Institute of Arts and Its Parent Organization the Detroit Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit Institute of Arts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Museum Storage and Meaning
Title | Museum Storage and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Mirjam Brusius |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2017-09-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351659421 |
Beyond their often beautiful exhibition halls, many museums contain vast, hidden spaces in which objects may be stored, conserved, or processed. Museums can also include unseen archives, study rooms, and libraries which are inaccessible to the public. This collection of essays focuses on this domain, an area that has hitherto received little attention. Divided into four sections, the book critically examines the physical space of museum storage areas, the fluctuating historical fortunes of exhibits, the growing phenomenon of publicly visible storage, and the politics of objects deemed worthy of collection but unsuitable for display. In doing so, it explores issues including the relationship between storage and canonization, the politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as a form of censorship, the architectural character of storage space, and the economic and epistemic value of museum objects. Essay contributions come from a broad combination of museum directors, curators, archaeologists, historians, and other academics.
Money in the Air
Title | Money in the Air PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Feigenbaum |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2024-06-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606068911 |
This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections forming the backbone of major American museums today. But what of the dealers, who possessed the expertise in art and recognized the potential of developing a new market model on both sides of the Atlantic? Money in the Air investigates the often-overlooked role of these dealers in creating an international art world. Contributors examine the histories of wellknown international firms like Duveen Brothers, M. Knoedler & Co., and Goupil & Cie and their relationships with American clients, as well as accounts of other remarkable dealers active in the transatlantic art market. Drawing on dealer archives, scholars reveal compelling findings, including previously unknown partnerships and systems of cooperation. This volume offers new perspectives on the development of art collections that formed the core of American art museums, such as the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection.