Vastly more than brick & mortar : reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s by Fogg Art Museum, Brush, Kathryn instant download

Vastly more than brick & mortar : reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s by Fogg Art Museum, Brush, Kathryn instant download

231 pages : 27 cm, \"This generously illustrated book - a history of the formative years of the Fogg Art Museum - discusses the educational and cultural philosophies behind its conception, its historical, social, and economic circumstances, its teaching activities, its art collections, and its research, library, and technical resources. It also places the Harvard institution in relation to contemporary initiatives in Germany (Aby Warburg's cultural-historical library in Hamburg and the Kunstinstitut at the University of Marburg), Britain (the Courtauld Institute of Art), and the United States (Princeton University, New York University, the University of Chicago, and others). This book combines institutional, intellectual, cultural, and social history, providing a lively portrait of a leading American art institution and the personalities involved in its reinvention.\"--Jacket, \" ... published in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of the second - and current - Fogg Art Museum building. The related exhibition celebrating that anniversary is organized by and on view at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 29/August 22, 2004\"--Title page verso, Includes bibliographical references and index, The old and the new Fogg : conception, direction, and patronage before and after World War I -- A comprehensive \"art laboratory\" for teaching and research : fund-raising and planning, 1922-25 -- Constructing, inaugurating, and using the new Fogg, 1925-28 -- A contemporary counterpart in Germany : the Kunstinstitut at the University of Marburg -- The new Fogg as model? : national and international responses