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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan ConlinPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231205801ISBN 10: 0231205805 Pages: 440 Publication Date: 22 October 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Innocents Abroad: The Founding Trustees, 1866–1880 2. General Cesnola and the Temple of Curium: Showmanship and Scholarship in the Age of Barnum, 1865–1895 3. Indentured Gratitude: The Havemeyers and Other Oligarchs, 1869–1913 4. Downtown: Artist-Artisans Between Commerce and Philanthropy, 1880–1914 5. The Guards: Ethnicity, Class, and Labor, 1880–1958 6. Colonial Flatware: Judge Clearwater and the Limits of Americanization, 1906–1933 7. The Ladies Lunch Club: Women and the Curatorial Profession, 1900–1940 8. The Modernists: The Museum and Modern Art, 1921–1950 9. Pupils on Parade: Museum Education as Theater, 1907–1973 10. Uptown: The Met and the “Total Black Community,” 1943–1977 11. Self-Culture for Out-of-Towners: From Miniatures to the Annenberg Center, 1948–1977 12. Changing Occupations: Mannequins at the Met, 1942–2004 13. Legacy Systems: From Multimedia to Digital, 1983–2019 Conclusion: 2020 Vision? Abbreviations Notes Sources and Select Bibliography IndexReviewsAs well researched and illustrated as it is written, Conlin’s The Met offers a rich, incisive, original, and highly entertaining account of the evolution of America’s most famous museum. -- Andrew McClellan, author of <i>The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao</i> As well researched and illustrated as it is written, Conlin’s The Met offers a rich, incisive, original, and highly entertaining account of the evolution of America’s most famous museum. -- Andrew McClellan, author of <i>The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao</i> A tour de force of original research and critical insight, Jonathan Conlin’s The Met is a fascinating study, a must read for anyone interested in the multifaceted history of the United States’ premier art museum. -- Alan Wallach, author of <i>Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States</i> Author InformationJonathan Conlin is professor of modern history at the University of Southampton. His books include Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London, and the Birth of the Modern City (2014) and Mr. Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man (2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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