The Ideal Museum: Art Historian Kenneth Clark on the Formation of Western Institutions, in 1954
about 38 months ago (03/19/2021)
Kenneth Clark on the Formation of Western Institutions, in 1954 – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Kenneth Clark Plus Icon Kenneth Clark View All March 19, 2021 1:37pm Johan Zoffany, Tribuna of the Uffizi , 1772–78. Via Wikimedia Commons/Royal Collection, Windsor Castle The following article first appeared in the January 1954 issue of ARTnews under the headline “The Ideal Museum.” The public art gallery is a relatively recent creation—scarcely one of them is older than two lifetimes—and it has grown up through a series of accidents, without much clear thought of its purpose, or, rather, of its conflicting purposes. This does not discredit it, for many of the most valuable human creations.