This dissertation reconstructs and investigates the origins of the Pérez Art
Museum Miami. In 2013, the museum re-opened in a new, county-funded building to
great acclaim and international attention, but the museum’s origins in the 1970s have
been largely forgotten. A result of the 1972 “Decade of Progress” bond vote by county
taxpayers that allocated funds to build a new art museum, the museum opened as the
Center for the Fine Arts in 1983 as a non-collecting institution dedicated to displaying
traveling exhibitions. The new institution represented the combined efforts of local
government, business, and art to construct not only a place in which to view art but also
as part of an overall plan to create a great metropolitan area. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fau.edu/oai:fau.digital.flvc.org:fau_30752 |
| Contributors | Ando, Erica (author), Brown, Susan Love (Thesis advisor), Florida Atlantic University (Degree grantor), Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology |
| Publisher | Florida Atlantic University |
| Source Sets | Florida Atlantic University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 320 p., application/pdf |
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