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J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

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An edition of Capital Culture (2013)

Capital Culture

J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

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An examination of J. Carter Brown's tenure at the National Gallery of Art.

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University of Chicago Press
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Subjects

art conservation, History, museum exhibitions, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), curation

People

J. Carter Brown III, Thomas Hoving, Paul Mellon, Philippe de Montebello, Charles Parkhurst, S. Dillon Ripley, John Walker

Places

Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Times

the second half of the twentieth century

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2013, University of Chicago Press
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First Sentence

"Few Americans of his day were born with more advantages than J. Carter Brown III."

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1. Becoming Carter Brown
2. The Nations Gallery: Directions and Deviations
3. Stalking the Prey: The Quest for Old Masters
4. The Secretary Arrives: Dillon Ripley and the Smithsonian Challenge
5. reinventing the National Gallery: Creating the East Building
6. “What Hath Brown Wrought?”
7. Presenting King Tut
8. Trouble in Paradise: The Light That Failed
9. Exhibiting Strategies
10. The Secretary Carries On: Consolidating Dillon Ripley’s Administration
11. Minister of Culture: Shaping Washington
12. “Treasure Houses of Britain”: The Anatomy of an Exhibition
13. Campaigns and Conquests
14. Goodbye Columbus: Celebrating the Quincentenary
15. Retirement Projects
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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Copyright Date
2013

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N856.H37 2013

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648

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OL38363923M
ISBN 13
9780226067841

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