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245 00 $aWhy art museums? :$bthe unfinished work of Alexander Dorner /$cedited by Sarah Ganz Blythe and Andrew Martinez.
264 1 $aProvidence, Rhode Island :$bRISD Museum ;$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bThe MIT Press,$c[2018]
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axv, 254 pages :$billustrations (some color), map ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aAlexander Dorner (1893-1957) became Director of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in 1938, and immediately began a radical makeover of the galleries, drawing on theories he had developed in collaboration with modernist artists during his directorship of the Provinzialmuseum in Hanover, Germany. Dorner's saturated environments sought to inspire wonderment and awe, immersing the museum visitor in the look and feel of a given period. Music, literature, and gallery talks (offered through a pioneering audio system) attempted to recreate the complex worlds in which the objects once operated. 'Why Art Museums?' considers Dorner's legacy and influence in art history, education, and museum practice. It includes the first publication of a 1938 speech made by Dorner at Harvard as well as galleys of Dorner's unpublished manuscript, 'Why Have Art Museums?', both of which explore the meaning and purpose of museums and art in society.0In Germany, Dorner formed close relationships with the Bauhaus artists and made some of the first acquisitions of works by Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, and others. The Nazi regime actively opposed Dorner's work, and he fled Germany for the United States. At the RISD Museum, Dorner clashed with RISD officials and Providence society and contended with wartime anti-German bias. His tenure at RISD was brief but highly influential. The essays and unpublished material in 'Why Art Museums?' make clear the relevance of Dorner's ideas about progressive education, public access to art and design, and the shaping of environments for experience and learning.
600 10 $aDorner, Alexander,$d1893-1957.
610 20 $aRhode Island School of Design.
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610 27 $aRhode Island School of Design.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00545013
650 0 $aArt museums.
650 7 $aArt museums.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00815631
700 1 $aBlythe, Sarah Ganz,$eeditor.
700 1 $aMartinez, Andrew,$d1964-$eeditor.
700 12 $aDorner, Alexander,$d1893-1957.$tWorks.$kSelections.
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