Screen LibraryValuing Detroit's Art Museum : A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue /
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, e...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45219-7 |
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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 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(xvii,273pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319452197 |
| Index Number: | NX180 |
| CLC: | J171.24 |
| Contents: | 1. The Detroit Museum of Art -- 2. The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Founders Society, and the City -- 3. Building Additions, Detroit's Decline, and State Rescue -- 4. Failed Plans, Fresh Crises, a New Relationship -- 5. New Starts, then Detroit's Bankruptcy -- 6. Valuing Art, Trusts, and Return to the Beginning -- 7. Epilogue. |