1st Edition
Modernisation and Democracy in the Twentieth-Century Art Museum in Britain A Museum for Everyone?
By Ana Baeza Ruiz
Copyright 2027
242 Pages
8 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Examining ideas of democracy and professionalisation, this book explores how these concepts developed in the twentieth-century art museum between the 1930s and the 1950s, with particular attention to debates across Anglo–American and European institutions.
Drawing on research from national and regional art institutions in Leeds and London, it shows that efforts to democratise the museum were... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The gallery beautiful: a project in “good design” in Leeds (1934–1938) 3. From country house to public gallery: civic-aesthetic reform at Temple
Newsam (1938–1945) 4. Postwar experimentalism at the National Gallery after WW2 5. Placing the “democratic” turn in the museum: space and aesthetic
experience (1951–1956) 6. The art museum as a means of communication (1947–1958) Conclusion
Biography
Ana Baeza Ruiz is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK.
