Museums and modernity: art galleries and the making of modern culture
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Abstract
Part I Museums and Modernity in Europe and England Introduction From Court to State: The Emergence of National Art Museums in Continental Europe 'The Peculiarities of the English': The Formation of the National Gallery, London Part II Art, Society and the Birth of the National Gallery of Scotland Stirrings of the Modern: Art, Civil Society and the Scottish Enlightenment The Birth of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1800-59 The High Within and the Low Without: The Social Production of Aesthetic Space in the National Gallery of Scotland, 1859-70 Conclusion Bibliography Index