Living Museums
<p>As places to enjoy art, as well as institutions that have become historic, museums can also be examined through the question of who exactly heads up these temples of art. What kinds of personalities have guided the fates of these large, traditional institutions? How have they done so, and what has motivated them? What galvanizes international curators or museum employees, and how have they risen to the challenge of opening their organizations to increasingly large numbers of visitors? Donatien Grau has conducted impressive conversations with influential museum operators. We have him to thank for these personal, art historical, cultural-political, and timely insights into museum operations, the histories of various institutions, and their leaders’ very personal attitudes toward art. This volume reads like a detective story about the mediation efforts of museums and the personal motives behind them.</p>
Editors: Donatien Grau
Contributors: Irina Antonova, Tom Krens, Alan Bowness, Timothy Clifford, Mark Jones, Michel Laclotte, Henri Loyrette, Philippe de Montebello, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Wilfried Seipel
Project Manager: Richard Viktor Hagemann
Copy Editor: Aaron Bogart
Producer: Vinzenz Geppert
Design: Neil Holt
Part of: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775747981