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This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collection—the first such study of a major art museum—explores how the Collection embodies its founders’ desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils’ legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyon

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Seven Layers of Blue
  • Chapter 2: Faith
  • Chapter 3: New World
  • Chapter 4: Collecting as a Vocation
  • Chapter 5: "Without Servitude to the Past, nor Recklessness"
  • Chapter 6: Toward a Museum
  • Chapter 7: Intimacies of Possession
  • Chapter 8: Care
  • Chapter 9: Institutionalization of an Aesthetic
  • Chapter 10: For Aesthetics
  • Notes
  • Reference List
  • Index

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/15/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292737587, 978-0292737587
      ISBN10: 0292737580
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collection—the first such study of a major art museum—explores how the Collection embodies its founders’ desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils’ legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyon

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Chapter 1: Seven Layers of Blue
      • Chapter 2: Faith
      • Chapter 3: New World
      • Chapter 4: Collecting as a Vocation
      • Chapter 5: "Without Servitude to the Past, nor Recklessness"
      • Chapter 6: Toward a Museum
      • Chapter 7: Intimacies of Possession
      • Chapter 8: Care
      • Chapter 9: Institutionalization of an Aesthetic
      • Chapter 10: For Aesthetics
      • Notes
      • Reference List
      • Index

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