Museum architecture : a new biography [E-Book] / Suzanne Macleod.
Museum architecture : a new biography [E-Book] / Suzanne Macleod.
"Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent development of a body of research to understand the myriad issues. Museum Architecture: A New Biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum...
| Personal Name(s): | Macleod, Suzanne. |
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| Imprint: |
New York :
Routledge,
2013
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 237 pages, illustrations, plans. |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9780415529051 9780203527832 9780415529044 |
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Table of Contents:
- Telling stories of museum architecture
- "Hobson's Choice": art and grog in Liverpool
- "It is, of course, very easy to make merry over the Alderman in Art": the 1930s extension and renovation
- Ration cards, food hordes and art: occupation by friendly forces and the battle for liberation 1939-1951
- Art (and architecture) in a city: ambition, illusion and revolution
- The social architecture of museums.