书目名称 | Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum |
副标题 | A History of Fiscal |
编辑 | Jeffrey Abt |
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概述 | Embeds a comprehensive institutional history within an account of the life of a city.Charts the dramatic rescue of the museum‘s collections during Detroit‘s bankruptcy.Appeals to a highly interdiscipl |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in American Economic History |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city‘s bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit‘s debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and political development of Detroit, giving a history of the city as well as of the institution, and providing a model of contextual institutional history..Abt describes how the Detroit Institute of Arts became the fifth largest art museum in America, from its founding as a private non-profit corporation in 1885 to its transformation into a municipal department in 1919, through the subsequent decades of extraordinary collections and facilities growth coupled with the repeated setbacks of government funding cuts during economic downturns. Detroit‘s 2013 bankruptcy underscored the nearly 130 years of fiscal missteps and false assumptions that rendered the museum particularly vulnerable to the monetary power of a global art investment community eager to capitalize on the city‘s failures and its creditors‘ demands..This is a remarkable and important contribution to many fields, including non-profit ma |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | cultural economics; Detroit Institute of Arts; institutional history; urban history; detroit museum of a |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45219-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-83242-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-45219-7Series ISSN 2662-3900 Series E-ISSN 2662-3919 |
issn_series | 2662-3900 |
copyright | Jeffrey Abt 2017 |