Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (Re Visions: Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art)

Incredible book, heavily annotated (but that’s ok because I was planning on doing the same thing)!

Course at college.

Lots of great ideas and info in here. It's a textbook that I have actually enjoyed reading!

Dr. Duncan's books discusses the history of art museums and focusses in on some notable, present day museums. Her approach combines the traditional art historian view with a sociological view. Art is not created in a vacuum and reflects the society it lives within. Duncan's approach gives us insight into why some artwork is accepted while other artwork is not. This book was required reading in my undergraduate studies. It is one of the few I choose to have in my personal library as well. Carol Duncan's book is small in size and easy to read. However, just because of its ease and size, don't mistake its value to art history. It is well researched and well edited. It is short, sweet and to the point. Too bad other art history books cannot be like that.

Definitely an interesting look into the origins and creation of public art museums and the history up until recently. I purhcased this for a college course but it was definitely an interesting read if you are interested in public institutions especially art museums

The boook was for my academic course..... and I was surprised by the reponse of amazon. They delivered it to me so fast. Thanks a lot. And the quality of the book is good too..... Book is basically related to museum culture and importance of rituals in those spaces.

Brilliant

The picture quality is a bit off, but i guess that is the publishers fault and not the sellers! Very good condition, and is being much used! Thankyou very much