Art versus the State : the architectural debate regarding the Luxembourg Museum and the building of the illegitimacy of the French art policy, 1848-1920 ; L’Art contre l’État ? : la trajectoire architecturale du Musée du Luxembourg dans la construction de l’illégitimité de l’action artistique publique, 1848-1920

This dissertation in architectural history argues that the architectural trajectory of the Luxembourg Museum in Paris was one of the main reasons why the French public art policy was considered as unwarranted and illegitimate. The Luxembourg Museum, whose collections are now scattered in various Parisian and provincial institutions, became in 1818 the world's first museum of contemporary art, by the will of King Louis XVIII. From the beginning, its aim was to feed the Louvre with recent and national art. The symbiotic relationship between these two museums, which was based on the principle of... Mehr ...