Title & Author:

On understanding art museums.

Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1975]

Description:

vii, 212 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

A Spectrum book

Notes:
At head of title: the American Assembly, Columbia University.
Background papers prepared for the 46th American Assembly, Arden House, Nov. 1974.
Includes bibliographical references (page 203) and index.
Introduction / Sherman E. Lee -- Works of art, ideas of art, and museums of art / Sherman E. Lee and Edward B. Henning -- Art Museum in the United States / Joshua C. Taylor -- Art museums : kinds, organization, procedures, and financing / Charles Parkhurst -- Education and scholarship in the American museum / George Heard Hamilton -- Management, power, and integrity / Daniel Catton Rich -- Art museum and the living artist / Walter D. Bannard -- Art museum and the pressures of society / Robert Coles.

Summary:

Background papers prepared for the 46th American Assembly, Arden House, Nov. 1974.

ISBN:

013936286X
9780139362866
0139362789 (pbk.)
9780139362781 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art museums.
Art Museums.
Art Musées.

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

American Assembly.
Spectrum book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 31478
Call No.: N410.O58 (ID:88-B3313)
Status: Available

Location: Library main 31479
Call No.: PO535
Status: Available