Helen Rees Leahy
Biographic Data
| ID | 134000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Rees Leahy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen Rees |
| FAMILY NAME | Leahy |
| SIGNATURE | LEAHY H R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Fix’d statue on the pedestal of Scorn’
Incorporating the Period Eye
In recent years, museums have staged a number of “exhibitions of exhibitions.” These experiments in institutional, curatorial, and artistic revivalism have ranged from allusions to and quotations from past installations to full-scale re-enactments and reconstructions. The motivations of the curators and artists responsible for these diverse projects have included the desire to recuperate both famous and forgotten shows and also to reproduce past …
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies will be the definitive reference for anyone - student, scholar, librarian - working in museum studies and the allied fields of art history, anthropology, and American studies. Investigates with exceptional breadth and depth issues in museum theory, museum history, mediations in art, design, and architecture, museum practice, and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum as an instituti…
Assembling Art, Constructing Heritage
On 27 August 2008, the National Galleries in Edinburgh and London launched a campaign to raise £50 million in order to purchase jointly a painting by Titian that had been hanging in the Edinburgh gallery since 1945. The painting, Diana and Actaeon (1556--1559) was one of the ‘Sutherland pictures’: a collection of 29 paintings on loan from the Dukes of Sutherland that had formed the core of the gallery's old master displays for 63 years. The compl…
Musée international de la réforme, geneva
Desiring Holbein
The central question of this paper is why are there only three works by Hans Holbein in the National Gallery, London? Through an account of the slow and difficult process of acquiring Holbeins for the national collection, the histories of these three paintings are linked in an exploration of the dialectics of presence and absence in the National Gallery. Each work bought for the Gallery was purchased from the seat of an English land-owning dynast…
Walking for Pleasure’? Bodies of Display at the Manchester Art‐treasures Exhibition in 1857
The scale, ambition and, arguably, the art‐historical significance of the Art‐Treasures Exhibition held in Manchester in 1857 was unprecedented in Britain, and has not been equalled subsequently. In all over 16,000 works of art were gathered together in the Art‐Treasures Palace at Old Trafford, and when the exhibition closed after five months, over 1,300,000 visitors had passed through its turnstiles. Prince Albert officially approved the venture…
New Labour, Old Masters
This paper explores the impact of extrinsic political policies on the National Gallery's practices of display, exhibition and interpretation through the lens of the purchase in 2004 of Raphael's 'The Madonna of the Pinks'. It is recognised that since 1997 government policy and funding for museums and galleries has been primarily predicated on their current and potential function in the promotion of social inclusion, cultural access and diversity …
‘Seeing it for real …?’—Authenticity, theatre and learning in museums This article draws on the combined efforts of the research team
This article reflects on the findings of a nationally-funded research project which investigated the practice and impact of museum theatre at two UK museums: the Imperial War Museum, London, and the People's History Museum, Manchester. The research team tracked the museum experiences of eight groups of primary school children, half of whom encountered a theatre event during their museum visits, while the other half followed alternative routes (in…
New Labour, Old Masters
This paper explores the impact of extrinsic political policies on the National Gallery's practices of display, exhibition and interpretation through the lens of the purchase in 2004 of Raphael's 'The Madonna of the Pinks'. It is recognised that since 1997 government policy and funding for museums and galleries has been primarily predicated on their current and potential function in the promotion of social inclusion, cultural access and diversity …
Walking for Pleasure’? Bodies of Display at the Manchester Art‐treasures Exhibition in 1857
The scale, ambition and, arguably, the art‐historical significance of the Art‐Treasures Exhibition held in Manchester in 1857 was unprecedented in Britain, and has not been equalled subsequently. In all over 16,000 works of art were gathered together in the Art‐Treasures Palace at Old Trafford, and when the exhibition closed after five months, over 1,300,000 visitors had passed through its turnstiles. Prince Albert officially approved the venture…
Incorporating the Period Eye
In recent years, museums have staged a number of “exhibitions of exhibitions.” These experiments in institutional, curatorial, and artistic revivalism have ranged from allusions to and quotations from past installations to full-scale re-enactments and reconstructions. The motivations of the curators and artists responsible for these diverse projects have included the desire to recuperate both famous and forgotten shows and also to reproduce past …
‘Seeing it for real …?’—Authenticity, theatre and learning in museums This article draws on the combined efforts of the research team
This article reflects on the findings of a nationally-funded research project which investigated the practice and impact of museum theatre at two UK museums: the Imperial War Museum, London, and the People's History Museum, Manchester. The research team tracked the museum experiences of eight groups of primary school children, half of whom encountered a theatre event during their museum visits, while the other half followed alternative routes (in…
Desiring Holbein
The central question of this paper is why are there only three works by Hans Holbein in the National Gallery, London? Through an account of the slow and difficult process of acquiring Holbeins for the national collection, the histories of these three paintings are linked in an exploration of the dialectics of presence and absence in the National Gallery. Each work bought for the Gallery was purchased from the seat of an English land-owning dynast…
Walking for Pleasure’? Bodies of Display at the Manchester Art‐treasures Exhibition in 1857
The scale, ambition and, arguably, the art‐historical significance of the Art‐Treasures Exhibition held in Manchester in 1857 was unprecedented in Britain, and has not been equalled subsequently. In all over 16,000 works of art were gathered together in the Art‐Treasures Palace at Old Trafford, and when the exhibition closed after five months, over 1,300,000 visitors had passed through its turnstiles. Prince Albert officially approved the venture…
New Labour, Old Masters
This paper explores the impact of extrinsic political policies on the National Gallery's practices of display, exhibition and interpretation through the lens of the purchase in 2004 of Raphael's 'The Madonna of the Pinks'. It is recognised that since 1997 government policy and funding for museums and galleries has been primarily predicated on their current and potential function in the promotion of social inclusion, cultural access and diversity …
Musée international de la réforme, geneva
Assembling Art, Constructing Heritage
On 27 August 2008, the National Galleries in Edinburgh and London launched a campaign to raise £50 million in order to purchase jointly a painting by Titian that had been hanging in the Edinburgh gallery since 1945. The painting, Diana and Actaeon (1556--1559) was one of the ‘Sutherland pictures’: a collection of 29 paintings on loan from the Dukes of Sutherland that had formed the core of the gallery's old master displays for 63 years. The compl…
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies will be the definitive reference for anyone - student, scholar, librarian - working in museum studies and the allied fields of art history, anthropology, and American studies. Investigates with exceptional breadth and depth issues in museum theory, museum history, mediations in art, design, and architecture, museum practice, and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum as an instituti…
Incorporating the Period Eye
In recent years, museums have staged a number of “exhibitions of exhibitions.” These experiments in institutional, curatorial, and artistic revivalism have ranged from allusions to and quotations from past installations to full-scale re-enactments and reconstructions. The motivations of the curators and artists responsible for these diverse projects have included the desire to recuperate both famous and forgotten shows and also to reproduce past …
‘Fix’d statue on the pedestal of Scorn’
Art (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (3 works) · Exhibition (3 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (3 works)