IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1230: Medieval Art in American Museums: Collecting, Display, and New Directions
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Kaelin Jewell, Department of Art History, Temple University, Pennsylvania |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Amy Gillette, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
| Respondent: | Jennifer Borland, Department of Art, Oklahoma State University |
| Paper 1230-a | American Medievalism at Hammond Castle (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1230-b | Sacred Space / Museum Space: The Chapel at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1230-c | Unexpected Diplomats: How Byzantine Enamel and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Negotiated Georgian Independence (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | From encyclopedic collections to idiosyncratically personal displays, medieval objects held in American museums have been bound up with institutions of progress - didactic, artistic, moral, and social - since the 'cathedral age' of urban and religious development in the United States. The display and interpretation of medieval art have recently undergone important changes as museums and cultural institutions register emergent ideals of progress and seek to engage more fully with both the academic community and the whole spectrum of the general public. This panel addresses these changes through discussions of the formation of medieval collections in American museums, their connection to wider historical events, and ways in which museums are utilizing new methodologies to bridge the gaps between collectors, scholars, objects, and viewers. |