 | Stewards of the Nation''s Art: Contested Cultural Authority 1890-1939 Subjects: Art museums -- England -- London -- Management; Art museums -- England -- London -- Finance; Art museums -- England -- London -- History; Aristocracy (Social class) -- Great Britain -- History; Art and society -- England -- History; Art and state -- Engla; Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments. Geddes Poole Andrea : Andrea Geddes Poole is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and of philanthropy to the arts. She is also the author of Stewards of the Nation's Art: Contested Cultural Authority, 1890-1939. |
