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Andrew McClellan is a professor of art history at Tufts University, specializing in the history and theory of museums, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, and cultural heritage. He has written extensively on the Louvre and the development of public art institutions.
Known for: The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
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The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
This book traces the evolution of the art museum from the Enlightenment to the present, exploring how architecture, politics, and cultural ideals have shaped the museum as an institution. McClellan examines key examples from Étienne-Louis Boullée’s visionary designs to Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, analyzing how museums reflect changing ideas about art, public access, and national identity.
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The Enlightenment and the Birth of the Public Museum
The eighteenth century gave rise to a powerful ideal: knowledge should no longer be confined to private hands. This age of reason argued that art and science belong to the public, and the museum emerged as one of its most radical experiments. The transformation of princely galleries and aristocratic...
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Étienne-Louis Boullée and Visionary Architecture
In Boullée’s visionary drawings, the museum ceased to be a mere container and became a symbol of collective enlightenment itself. His imagined monuments—vast spheres, monumental vaults, temples to reason—were never built, but they expressed the metaphysical spirit of the age: the belief that archite...
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About Andrew McClellan
Andrew McClellan is a professor of art history at Tufts University, specializing in the history and theory of museums, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, and cultural heritage. He has written extensively on the Louvre and the development of public art institutions.
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