This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created--the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show--and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von ...
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This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created--the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show--and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called "the period eye," a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience.
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Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with just moderate edgewear, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unblemished textblock edges; Scattered underlining/notes to about 35 pages, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); 2.8 lbs; Dark orange dust jacket with title in black lettering; 2009, Yale University Press; 244 pages; "Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000, " by Charlotte Klonk.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
