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Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts Museums and public art have traditionally taken significantly different approaches to customer engagement, but throughout history they have also worked together in some urban contexts, notably as landmarks of so-called cultural districts. Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts reviews their changing interactions in many different types of cities since the Enlightenment, or even before, going back to the etymological origins of museums and monuments in classical antiquity. The type of historical enquiry presented within the volume is not intended as a total narrative, but the international study cases considered convey a global panorama of the shifting paradigms set in different periods by some cultural neighbourhoods and emulated worldwide. Blurring boundaries between art history, museology and urbanism, this critical account explores past tensions, achievements and failures, giving insightful consideration to present policies and pointing out reasonable recommendations for the future regarding public heritage. Presenting for the first time insights into the role of collections of public art as landmarks of cultural districts, this book considers collections displayed outdoors from the double perspective of curatorial outreach and civic values. This book will fill a gap in the existing museum studies literature, hitherto mainly focused on indoor collecting and curatorial policies but increasingly more and more attentive to their outside context. As such, the book should be of great interest to academics, researchers and students working in the fields of art, heritage, museum studies and urban history. It should also be of value to professionals working in the museum and art sectors. J. Pedro Lorente is Professor of Art History at the University of Saragossa, Spain. Routledge Research in Museum Studies Collecting the Past: British Collectors and Their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries ed. Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum by Kirsten Drotner and Kim Christian Schrøder Climate Change and Museum Futures ed. Fiona Cameron and Brett Neilson Introducing Peace Museums Joyce Apsel Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice: Decolonizing Engagement Bryony Onciul Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display ed. Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon Belgian Museums of the Great War: Politics, Memory and Conference Karen Shelby Museums, Immigrants, and Social Justice Sophia Labadi Museum Storage and Meaning: Tales from the Crypt ed. Mirjam Brusius and Kavita Singh Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum ed. Jane Chin Davidson and Sandra Esslinger Exhibiting the Ancient Middle East: Curatorial Practices and Audiences ed. Geoff Emberling and Lucas P. Petit For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Routledge-Research-in-Museum-Studies/book-series/RRIMS Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts J. Pedro Lorente F irst published 2019 b y Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN a nd by Routledge 7 11 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 R outledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 J. Pedro Lorente T he right of J. Pedro Lorente to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-8153-5957-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-351-12030-2 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of figures vii A cknowledgements x 1 Introduction: museum borders and disciplinary boundaries 1 PART I Monuments on the fringes of museums 9 2 Art districts in the visual culture of the Enlightenment and Romanticism 11 2 .1 Classical statues and museums in the urban epicentres of art capitals 15 2 .2 Museums and monuments as cultural lures for urban expansions 25 3 Statues of great artists erected near museums 41 3 .1 The first urban monuments devoted to artists; pioneering cases adjacent to art institutions 42 3 .2 Setting monumental trends in art districts at the turn of the century 49 3 .3 The apex and last stages of those icons, relegated by other forms of cultural branding 57 PART II Modern arcadias 69 4 High culture on urban heights: the mouseion ideal as city crown 71 4.1 Cultural promontories in urban utopias from antiquity to the nineteenth century 72 vi Contents 4.2 The Mathildenhöhe: high court and Gesamtkunstwerk 74 4.3 Ill-fated derivations, from cultural urban crown to museum with broad views 82 5 Modernity expands into green fields 101 5.1 Gardens as extensions of museums in Rodin’s period and his legacy 102 5.2 Urban museums with sculpture gardens: a typical dream of the Modern Movement 110 5.3 Seeking greener pastures : modern art expansion in parks or rural estates 119 PART III Museums taken to the streets 131 6 Open air museums as an urban phenomenon 133 6.1 The rural genesis of open air museums – of ethnology rather than art 134 6.2 A political and urban landmark: Museo de la Castellana in Madrid 140 6.3 What’s in a name? Proliferation of the so-called museums of outdoor sculptures 145 6.4 An unambiguously urban trend of the present: museums of street art 155 7 Dialectics of museums/public art articulation at the turn of the millennium 165 7 .1 Conceptual ‘antimonuments’ and institutional critique within museum environments 166 7 .2 Postmodern return of monumental statues as popular attractions 178 7 .3 Public art as an interface: overcoming boundaries between outdoor and indoor exhibition space 188 8 Epilogue: heritology, a new discipline for the study of public art and museums in cultural districts 204 R eferences 207 I ndex 221 Figures 1.1 Facade of the Municipal Museum of Calais with Rodin’s monument to the Burghers 4 2 .1 Charles Natoire: Artists drawing in the inner court of the Capitoline Museum, Rome 16 2 .2 Unknown author: Piazza della Signoria 19 2 .3 Hubert Robert: Entrance to the Musée Napoléon 22 2 .4 Hubert Robert: Artist drawing antiquities in front of the Louvre’s Petite Galerie 24 2 .5 James Pollard: Trafalgar Square, London 27 2 .6 Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder: Friedrichsplatz and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel 29 2 .7 Statue of Daoiz and Velarde by the facade of the Museo del Prado ca. 1890 34 3 .1 Museum Square in Seville and monument to Murillo by the Prado Museum in Madrid 47 3 .2 Monuments to Velázquez and Raffet in the Jardin de l’Infante by the Louvre 51 3 .3 Boucher monument (also featuring the statue of Velázquez in the background) in the Jardin de l’Infante by the Louvre 52 3 .4 Monument to Meissonier in front of the entrance to the Louvre; monument to Gérôme at the Jardin de l’Oratoire by the Louvre 53 3 .5 Velázquez monument in front of the western facade of the Prado Museum; monument to Goya by the northern entrance to the Prado Museum 55 3 .6 York City Art Gallery, with the Etty Memorial in the square 57 3 .7 Statues of the Louvre’s Campo Santo 59 4 .1 Panoramic view of the Mathildenhöhe hill in the opening exhibition of 1901 76 4 .2 Expressionist figures by Bernhard Hoetger in the forecourt of the Wedding Tower and exhibition building on the summit of the Mathildenhöhe 80 viii Figures 4.3 Rodin’s estate on a hill of Meudon 84 4.4 Drawing of the ideal garden city, structured in concentric circles around a central square, bordered by public buildings, including a museum/art gallery 88 4.5 Osthaus’s estate as Stadtkrone with public buildings; design by Bruno Taut 90 4.6 Dionisio González: Musée à croissance illimitée (Le Corbusier) , 2013 94 4.7 Aerial view of the Maeght Foundation, with the houses of Saint-Paul de Vence in the background 95 5.1 Western facade of the Musée du Luxembourg 104 5 .2 Entrance to the Musée du Luxembourg with a display of sculptures outdoors 105 5.3 Sculpture garden of the Musée Rodin in Paris, Rue de Varenne 107 5.4 Facade of the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, inaugurated in 1944 114 5.5 Sculpture garden of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 116 5.6 Sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin 117 5.7 Beeldentuin Middelheim Museum, with the manor house and orangerie in the background 121 5 .8 The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Giuliano Vangi “Grande Racconto” in front of one of the museum buildings 125 6 .1 Open Air Museum of Hecho, with sculptures by Tramullas and other artists 139 6 .2 Museum of Public Art, 40 Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid 141 6 .3 Open Air Museum of Sculptures, Paris, by the Seine 146 6 .4 Museum Park of Sculptures, Providencia, by the Mapocho River 147 6 .5 Sculptures in Plaza de San Pedro, part of the Open Air Museum of Aracena 150 6 .6 Entrance to Leganés Museum of Sculptures, featuring a work by Pepe Noja 153 6.7 Bilotti Open Air Museum in the pedestrian streets of Cosenza’s city centre 154 6.8 Mural by Matilde Pérez with a vandalized sign at the Open Air Museum of Valparaíso 156 7.1 Environment by Dani Karavan beside the Ludwig Museum in Cologne 169 7.2 Facade of the Los Angeles County Museum featuring an outdoor collection with interpretative panels 173 7.3 Main entrance to the Marseilles Museum of Contemporary Art, with some Conceptual artworks 174 7 .4 Piazza with artworks by the new entrance to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 176 Figures ix 7.5 Installation by Julian Opie in front of the Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin 178 7.6 Hammering Man by Jonathan Borofsky, in front of the Seattle Art Museum 181 7.7 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, with P uppy by Jeff Koons 183 7.8 Plaza Botero and Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia 185 7.9 Curro González: As a monument to the artist , at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville 188 7.10 Sculpture Museum, Marl, with collections inside and outside 189 7.11 Lyons Museum of Contemporary Art, with artworks by Combas, Henri and Kirkeby 193 7.12 Labelled outdoor collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá 195 7.13 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, with Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare 199

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