The Evolving House Museum : : Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now / / edited by Margaret Iacono Wertz and Esmée Quodbach.

• Superior document: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Quodbach, Esmée,; Wertz, Margaret Iacono,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets ; 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 pages)

This volume explores twelve house museums, created over more than two centuries, and founded across the globe. What motivates collectors to establish independent house museums instead of donating their collections to preexisting institutions? How have collectors' original intentions manifested themselves in their museums? Have founder mandates aided the survival or caused the demise of their institutions? How have house museums' collections or buildings evolved over time? Must museums reinterpret their collections to remain relevant to contemporary and diverse audiences? In seeking to answer these questions, the volume's authors share the unique stories behind the creation and evolution of these fascinating institutions, and the intriguing stories of the exceptional individuals who founded them. Contributors: AistÄ— BimbirytÄ—, Eliza Butler, Chih-En Chen, Enrico Colle, Allegra Davis, Marissa Hershon, Mia Laufer, Ulrike Müller, Nadine Nour el Din, Inge Reist, Anne Nellis Richter, and Georgina S. Walker.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now -- Part 1 Early Beginnings -- 1 Cleveland House as Art Museum? The Short Life of the 'Louvre of London' -- 2 Art, Science, and Empire: Contextualizing the Collections at Frederic Church's Olana -- 3 Historical Challenges and Future Perspectives for Collection Museums: The Case of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp -- 4 In the Heart of Florentine Collections: Frederick Stibbert and His Museum -- Part 2 The Gilded Age and Beyond -- 5 The Divergent Legacies of Parisian Collectors Isaac and Moïse de Camondo -- 6 The Frick Collection: From Private Home to Public Museum -- 7 The Ringling's Ca' d'Zan: Its Evolution from Winter Residence to Historic House Museum -- 8 An Infinite Reverie: A History of Cairo's Mr. &amp -- Mrs. Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum -- Part 3 Looking Back, Looking Forward -- 9 Black Voices and Modern Art: The Problem of "Inclusiveness" at The Phillips Collection -- 10 Between Exclusivity and Public Access: The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania -- 11 A House Museum as a House Temple: Sequenced Ritual Spaces in Hung's Art Gallery in Taipei -- 12 A New Type of House Museum: Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne (2009) -- Index -- Back Cover.