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A wise extravagance : the founding of the Carnegie International exhibitions 1895-1901 / Kenneth Neal.
LIBRA N6487.P57 C375 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neal, Kenneth, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnegie Museum of Art.
- Carnegie International--History.
- Carnegie International.
- Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern.
- Carnegie Museum of Art--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Kenneth Neal looks at how the Carnegie International came to be: the philosophy of those who founded it, the first exhibitions-the art, the artists, and the public reception-and what the early International meant to the world of art and to the development of the Carnegie Museum. He concludes that the International ultimately failed to live up to Andrew Carnegie's most idealistic expectations: it neither made Pittsburgh a world-class art center nor transformed its inhabitants into moral and spiritual paragons. But it did greatly enrich the cultural life of the city and the country-as it continues to do today-and it helped improve Pittsburgh's dreary, provincial, industrial image.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822939258
- 0822955849
- OCLC:
- 33971822
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