https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Golden-Age-of-Museum-Philanthropy https://booksandideas.net/The-Golden-Age-of-Museum-Philanthropy 2026-03-19T08:30:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Arts art museum philanthropy collection <p>At a time when public museums are struggling due to budget cuts and the need for renovations, the opening of many private foundations marks a shift in the Parisian museum landscape. Against this backdrop, G. Adam offers a comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding the rise of private museums.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Invisible-Museum https://booksandideas.net/The-Invisible-Museum 2020-04-16T07:00:00Z text/html en Yaël Kreplak Arts Russia museum labour technology exhibit <p>Though primarily a visual experience, the museum nonetheless depends on a number of invisible tasks. <span class="caps">V.A.</span> Lépinay's book uses the Hermitage Museum as a field of investigation and reveals the scientific work done on the collections, their composition and their presentation to the public</p> https://booksandideas.net/A-World-of-Museums https://booksandideas.net/A-World-of-Museums 2017-07-17T07:00:00Z text/html en Elizabeth Dospel Williams Politics Arts nationalism museum cosmopolitanism <p>Adopting an ethnographical approach on the world of museums, Peggy Levitt explains how, as a crucial link between past and present, the local and the global, they play a political role in addressing questions of nationalism and cosmopolitanism.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-art-market-before-the-French https://booksandideas.net/The-art-market-before-the-French 2009-04-08T10:16:06Z text/html en Colin Jones Arts art museum critique <p>Charlotte Guichard highlights the role of the <i>amateur d'art</i> in the XVIIIth century art market. Although he played a key role in the rise of French art in the last half century of the Ancien Régime, the <i>amateur</i> was strongly criticized for his aristocratic notion of artistic taste.</p>