Art of memories : curating at the Hermitage /

Art of memories : curating at the Hermitage /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lépinay, Vincent Antonin, author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) -- Officials and employees. Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) Art museums -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg. Corporate culture -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg. Art museums -- Social aspects. Corporate culture. Employees. Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12351867

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ISBN:	0231549563 9780231549561 9780231191883 023119188X 9780231191890 0231191898
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage's curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavily invested in self-protection from the outside world.
Other form:	Print version: Lépinay, Vincent Antonin. Art of memories. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231191883

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Hermitage, a cultural laboratory
Moving objects
Interlude 1 : art history and Hermitage before World War II
Documenting the museum
Art history from the collections up
Interlude 2: mobility at Hermitage
The nostalgic modesty of Hermitage restorers
Guides : taking science down the galleries
Spaces and surprises: technologies of vision for a long winter
Conclusion : secreting documents.