书名：The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People / 大都会博物馆：一座博物馆及其人的历史
定价：228.0
ISBN：9780231218719
作者：Jonathan Conlin
版次：1
出版时间：2024-10

内容提要：
书名：The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People / 大都会博物馆：一座博物馆及其人群的历史
作者：Jonathan Conlin
出版社：Columbia University Press，2024年
装帧：平装，400-440页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.0*25.0 cm

ISBN：978-0-2312-1871-9

简介
纽约大都会艺术博物馆是世界最伟大的文化机构之一，其藏品涵盖绘画、雕塑、服饰、乐器、武器与盔甲等广阔范围，跨越数千年——从古埃及、古希腊到伊斯兰艺术，从欧洲古典大师到现代艺术家。大都会如何积累这些财富？那些购买、修复、编目、参观和守护这些作品的人们的经历，又能告诉我们关于这座博物馆的什么故事？
本书是一部开创性的“自下而上”的大都会博物馆史，探索其成就与失败。Jonathan Conlin讲述了塑造这座博物馆的人们的故事——从策展人和艺术家到参观者和保安——以及那些将博物馆视为己有的社群。他着重揭示了财富、种族和性别方面的不平等，揭露了博物馆依赖“强盗大亨”和寡头的隐性成本、影响美国翼建立排外移民政策，以及女性策展人所面临的障碍。通过对过去和现任员工的大量访谈，Conlin将故事延续至今，包括博物馆在2020年经历的多事之秋的150周年庆。随着大都会面临持续争议，本书及时讲述了这座标志性机构背后的人们的故事，为博物馆所秉持的人类共享创造力的愿景提出了令人信服的论证。

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who bought, restored, catalogued, visited, and watched over these works tell us about the museum?

This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings. Jonathan Conlin tells the stories of the people who have shaped the museum—from curators and artists to museumgoers and security guards—and the communities that have made it their own. Highlighting inequalities of wealth, race, and gender, he exposes the hidden costs of the museum's reliance on "robber barons" and oligarchs, the exclusionary immigration policies that influenced the foundation of the American Wing, and the obstacles faced by women curators. Drawing on extensive interviews with past and current staff, Conlin brings the story up to the present, including the museum's troubled 150th anniversary in 2020. As the Met faces continued controversy, this book offers a timely account of the people behind an iconic institution and a compelling case for the museum's vision of shared human creativity.