An ancient sculpture decorating seclude courtyard, a Renaissance masterpiece revered in the serenity of a church, a Modern painting exhibited in crowded museum: each of these exemplifies the power of placement to confer meaning on an artwork, In this absorbing study, author Victoria Newhouse examines the charged zone where spectator ans art object meet. Long neglected by art books and museum catalogs, the link between presentation and art is critical to the understanding of such objects.
Whether in use in a museum or commercial gallery, a royal palace or modest home, the place and manner of display can bestow a meaning that is religious, political, educational, or decorative, and can even affect aesthetic and commercial values. Newhouse tackles a collection of fascinating case studies, including the Winged Victory's tortuous route from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in Samothrace to the Louvre's monnumenta1 stairway, three interpretations of and assortment of Egyptian antiquities, and various installations of Jackson Pollock's mural-sized paintings. She concludes with an overiew of how presentation has affected some of the great icons of art history -from Velázquez's Jester to Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon - and a discussion of approaches to the exhibition of decorative art and architecture.
Past and present alike inform the author's investigation of the intricacies of presenting art. Famed historic displays -the studiolo and cabinet of curiosities, the Paris Salons, and the attention-getting blockbusters-provide points of comparison with the recent exhibitions t the Metropolitan Museum of Art in and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis, the Tate Modern an Tate Britain in London, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the Guggenheim Bilbao, an in numerous other venues, A thorough and wide-ranging inquiry, Art and the Power of Placement elucidates an essential aspect of the art experience.
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