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Art of memories : curating at the Hermitage / Vincent Antonin Lépinay.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231549563
  • 9780231549561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Art of memories.DDC classification:
  • 708.947086 23
LOC classification:
  • N3350
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Contents:
Introduction : Hermitage, a cultural laboratory -- Moving objects -- Interlude 1 : art history and Hermitage before World War II -- Documenting the museum -- Art history from the collections up -- Interlude 2: mobility at Hermitage -- The nostalgic modesty of Hermitage restorers -- Guides : taking science down the galleries -- Spaces and surprises: technologies of vision for a long winter -- Conclusion : secreting documents.
Summary: In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage's curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavily invested in self-protection from the outside world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Hermitage, a cultural laboratory -- Moving objects -- Interlude 1 : art history and Hermitage before World War II -- Documenting the museum -- Art history from the collections up -- Interlude 2: mobility at Hermitage -- The nostalgic modesty of Hermitage restorers -- Guides : taking science down the galleries -- Spaces and surprises: technologies of vision for a long winter -- Conclusion : secreting documents.

In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage's curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavily invested in self-protection from the outside world.

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