ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues perhaps even more surprisingly, that this is so of all national galleries and not just those that find themselves in a period of reignited nationalism. It focuses on National galleries of painting form. International art, more so than national art, is valued for its status. These artworks perform within an international system of value in which possession offers political and other advantages. The book considers the invention and negotiation of national artists by national galleries. The new constitution was published in a huge; lavish illustrates using the great history paintings possessed by, and on display in, the Hungarian National Gallery. The Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia established in 1960, was reorganised under the Cultural Foundation of the Central Bank of Bolivia in 2003.