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National galleries the art of making nations 1st Edition by Simon J Knell ISBN 9781317432418 131743241X

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Year: 2016

Language: english

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Author: Simon J Knell

Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces? How are national galleries involved in the construction national art? National Galleries is the first book to undertake a panoramic view of a type of national institution – which are sometimes called national museums of fine art – that is now found in almost every nation on earth. Adopting a richly illustrated, globally inclusive, comparative view, Simon Knell argues that national galleries should not be understood as ‘great galleries’ but as peculiar sites where art is made to perform in acts of nation building. A book that fundamentally rewrites the history of these institutions and encourages the reader to dispense with elitist views of their worth, Knell reveals an unseen geography and a rich complexity of performance. He considers the ways the national galleries entangle art and nation, and the differing trajectories and purposes of international and national art. Exploring galleries, artists and artworks from around the world, National Galleries is an argument about how we think about and study these institutions. Privileging the situatedness of each national gallery performance, and valuing localism over universalism, Knell looks particularly at how national art is constructed and represented. He ends with examples that show the mutability of national art and by questioning the necessity of art nationalism.

National galleries the art of making nations 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART I Introduction

1 Picturing the national gallery

Budapest 2012

Embarking on a New Journey

Defining the national gallery

Refining and complicating the definition

Boundary institutions

Putting the nation in the gallery

Nations, the national and the international

The political agency of national galleries

The national gallery and the art-nation

PART II Art Nation Gallery

2 Entangling art and nation

Oslo 2011

Isolating artists

Subjects and essences

Citizens and foreigners

Inscription and entombment

Making up stories

Respecting the nation

3 National and international art

London 2013

Accumulating masterpieces

An authored geography

An idiosyncratic inheritance

Appropriation and moral purpose

The nation as a moral good

The psychology of taste

PART III Histories Geographies

4 Inventing national galleries

London 1629

The National Gallery

The Louvre

Nationalising the Royal Museum

National galleries as projects of unification

National galleries and the fight for independence

State art museums, ideology and control

Fanaticism and the national gallery

National galleries and fragmenting nations

Diverse invention

5 An idea in global translation

Mexico City 2015

Latin America

The British model abroad

Speaking to the world

Censorship, propaganda and freedom

The independent nation

Building a better world

PART IV Architecture Curation

6 Buildings in cities

Canberra 2010

The curated city or the body of the nation

An aesthetic paradigm

A functional ideal

Galleries for the nation

Function and nation

Brutalism, blandness and bling

Strange appropriations

7 Performances in space

London 2013

Harmonic agency

Movement and culmination

Scale, spectacle, transcendence and the sublime

Inserting the nation

Storied space

Political maps of culture

Convention and invention

PART V National Galleries, National Art

8 Making national art

Tirana 2012

State realisms in Russia, Germany and China

Academic nationalism in Poland

The Prado and the invention of the Spanish tradition

National art perfected: Canada’s Group of Seven

9 Admitting complexity

Guernica 1937

Impressionism, Australia and the national artist

Internationalism and the Hungarian Fauves

Contesting New Zealand’s Colin McCahon

America’s inclusive abstraction and Latino art

Beyond nation, beyond art: Indigenous Australia

Notes

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