Art collecting and gifts to museums

• Verfasst von: Grijp, Paul van der [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Art collecting and gifts to museums
• Titelzusatz: an anthropology of donations
• Verf.angabe: Paul van der Grijp
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: vii, 193 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge research in museum studies
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-032-81321-9
• ISBN: 978-1-032-81323-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Museum / (s)Sammlung / (s)Schenkung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Grijp, Paul van der, 1952 - : Art collecting and gifts to museums. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,, 2025. - 1 online resource (vii, 193 pages).
• RVK-Notation: LH 60400
• K10plus-PPN: 1899229000

Abstract

"Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be. Presenting case studies from Europe, North America, East Asia, and the South Pacific, the book is concerned with both elite and popular collections and examines the act of donating art from the collector's point of view. Demonstrating that art museums depend on donations from private collectors, Paul van der Grijp emphasises that it is crucial to understand the psychological, sociological, economic, and educational motivations for gifting works of art to institutions. Taken together, the chapters argue that collectors donate to museums because the latter represent an imagined community, to whom they would like to bestow a sacred gift. Private collectors are, Van der Grijp maintains, motivated to ensure the immortality of their collections and, ultimately, to preserve some memory of their own lives in the process. Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums, culture, art, anthropology, history and sociology"--