Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts

J. Pedro Lorente is Professor of Art History at the University of Saragossa, Spain

• List of figures Acknowledgements1 Introduction: museum borders and disciplinary boundariesPART I Monuments on the fringes of museums2 Art districts in the visual culture of the Enlightenment and Romanticism2.1 Classical statues and museums in the urban epicentres of art capitals2.2 Museums and monuments as cultural lures for urban expansions3 Statues of great artists erected near museums3.1 The first urban monuments devoted to artists; pioneering cases adjacent to art institutions3.2 Setting monumental trends in art districts at the turn of the century3.3 The apex and last stages of those icons, relegated by other forms of cultural brandingPART II Modern arcadias 4 High culture on urban heights: the mouseion ideal as city crown4.1 Cultural promontories in urban utopias from antiquity to the nineteenth century4.2 The Mathildenhöhe: high court and Gesamtkunstwerk4.3 Ill-fated derivations, from cultural urban crown to museum with broad views5 Modernity expands into green fields 5.1 Gardens as extensions of museums in Rodin’s period and his legacy 5.2 Urban museums with sculpture gardens: a typical dream of the Modern Movement 5.3 Seeking greener pastures : modern art expansion in parks or rural estates PART III Museums taken to the streets 6 Open air museums as an urban phenomenon 6.1 The rural genesis of open air museums – of ethnology rather than art 6.2 A political and urban landmark: Museo de la Castellana in Madrid 6.3 What’s in a name? Proliferation of the so-called museums of outdoor sculptures 6.4 An unambiguously urban trend of the present: museums of street art 7 Dialectics of museums/public art articulation at the turn of the millennium 7.1 Conceptual ‘antimonuments’ and institutional critique within museum environments 7.2 Postmodern return of monumental statues as popular attractions 7.3 Public art as an interface: overcoming boundaries between outdoor and indoor exhibition space 8 Epilogue: heritology, a new discipline for the study of public art and museums in cultural districts References Index