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Wendy Phillips
May 13, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/13/99
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"Towards a New Museum"
by Victoria Newhouse
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1885254601/wendysmall
Should art museums be designed to surprise and delight or to
instruct and uplift? Should the museum building be a temple
of art or an entertainment complex? Architectural historian
Victoria Newhouse considers these and other questions about
museums in her book "Towards a New Museum." Newhouse
examines dozens of art museums built during the 1980s and
1990s and describes how the buildings fit into the history
of ideas about the proper function of museums. Some museums
are like cabinets of curiosities, a hodgepodge of items the
collector assembles to delight viewers. Other designers of
museums strive to provide a neutral environment that does
not distract viewers from the art. However, some architects
believe that hanging paintings on white walls in galleries
separates the art from its context. Architects and artists
have grappled with these ideas and created some stunning and
outlandish museums in recent years. Newhouse describes the
sinuous, titanium-coated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain,
and the fractured forms of the Fredrick R. Weisman Art
Museum in Minneapolis.
by Victoria Newhouse
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1885254601/wendysmall
Should art museums be designed to surprise and delight or to
instruct and uplift? Should the museum building be a temple
of art or an entertainment complex? Architectural historian
Victoria Newhouse considers these and other questions about
museums in her book "Towards a New Museum." Newhouse
examines dozens of art museums built during the 1980s and
1990s and describes how the buildings fit into the history
of ideas about the proper function of museums. Some museums
are like cabinets of curiosities, a hodgepodge of items the
collector assembles to delight viewers. Other designers of
museums strive to provide a neutral environment that does
not distract viewers from the art. However, some architects
believe that hanging paintings on white walls in galleries
separates the art from its context. Architects and artists
have grappled with these ideas and created some stunning and
outlandish museums in recent years. Newhouse describes the
sinuous, titanium-coated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain,
and the fractured forms of the Fredrick R. Weisman Art
Museum in Minneapolis.
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