Likewise the nights and days have a new radiance for the student of Dante, the Alps and the ocean new wonders for the intimate of Byron and Swinburne, London and the Thames new fascinations for the familiar of Dickens. Writing of a calm at sea, Bullen in his Cruise of the Cachalot describes it as “such a calm as one realizes when one reads sympathetically that magical piece of work "The Ancient Mariner.'" So largely is the world what the artists make of it for us.

CONTENTS

PART I. PURPOSE

I. ON THE NATURE AND PLACE OF FINE ART

Fine Art and Beauty. Gift and Craft. Matter and Form. Process

and Product. Art for Art's Sake. Beauty and Divinity.

3.

Education. Fine Art. Education in Fine Art. Popular Education

in Fine Art. Culture.

III. THE AIMS OF MUSEUMS. THE IDEAL OF CULTURE

I. DR. GOODE'S THESIS AND ITS ANTITHESIS

II. THE TRIPLE AIM OF MUSEUMS OF FINE ART

III. ON THE DISTINCTIVE PURPOSE OF MUSEUMS OF ART

IV. THE DIDACTIC BIAS IN MUSEUM MANAGEMENT

V. CONNOISSEUR AND DILETTANTE: A MEDITATION ON SKIM-

MING SUGAR WITH A WARMING-PAN

110

PART II. METHOD

I. GROWTH

ON COLLECTING FOR MUSEUMS.

II. CONSTRUCTION. THE IDEALS OF DIAGONAL LIGHTING AND

RADIAL EXPANSION

I. A MUSEUM WITHOUT SKYLIGHTS

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137

139

Attic light versus side or top light. The nave plan versus the

court plan.

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IV. EXEGESIS. THE IDEALS OF OFFICIAL COMPANIONSHIP AND

THE INTERPRETATIVE CATALOGUE

277

V. GOVERNMENT. THE IDEAL OF COMPOSITE BOARDS. SOME

GENERAL PROBLEMS

I. THE DAY OF THE EXPERT

345

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II. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION AND ITS TWO PERTURBATIONS 363

III. EXECUTIVE ABILITY WITH AND WITHOUT QUOTATION MARKS 369

IV. THE ECONOMICS OF A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

V. MUSEUMS AND THE PUBLIC

372

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Museum publicity. State support and free admission.

APPENDIX

AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT

OF MUSEUMS OF FINE ART: A SYLLABUS

. 397

I. MUSEUMS OF ART AND THE CONSERVATION OF MONUMENTS 410

MUSEUM REGISTRY OF PUBLIC ART

II. THE REGISTRY OF PUBLIC ART AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE

ARTS, BOSTON.

OBSERVATIONS IN EUROPEAN MUSEUMS

415

MUSEUM IDEALS

PART I. PURPOSE

I. ON THE NATURE AND PLACE OF FINE ART II. POPULAR EDUCATION IN FINE ART

III. THE AIMS OF MUSEUMS