Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum - Jeffrey Abt

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Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum (eBook)

A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue

Jeffrey Abt (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XVII, 273 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-45219-7 (ISBN)

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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 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 management and economics, cultural policy, museum and urban history, and the histories of both the Detroit Institute of Arts and the city of Detroit itself. Despite the museum's unique history, its story offers valuable lessons for anyone concerned about the future of art museums in the United States and abroad.

Jeffrey Abt is Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. He has written two previous books, A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000 and American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute. Abt is also co-editor of the Museum History Journal.

Jeffrey Abt is Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. He has written two previous books, A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000 and American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute. Abt is also co-editor of the Museum History Journal.

1. The Detroit Museum of Art2. The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Founders Society, and the City3. Building Additions, Detroit's Decline, and State Rescue4. Failed Plans, Fresh Crises, a New Relationship5. New Starts, then Detroit's Bankruptcy6. Valuing Art, Trusts, and Return to the Beginning7. Epilogue

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.3.2017
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 273 p. 55 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verwaltungsverfahrensrecht
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft
Schlagworte	Cultural economics • Detroit Institute of Arts • detroit museum of art • Grand Bargain • Institutional history • Museum on the Verge • Urban History
ISBN-10	3-319-45219-3 / 3319452193
ISBN-13	978-3-319-45219-7 / 9783319452197

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