Freer Gallery of Art (English)

Japanese: Freer Gallery of Art(英語表記)FreerGalleryofArt
Freer Gallery of Art (English)

...With the backing of America's powerful economy, most of the American art collections were built in just a few decades, and they reflect the personal tastes of the collectors, but at the same time, many of them were collected from a broad perspective that is not biased towards one country or era. As a result, some of the world's leading collections of Oriental art, excluding Japan and China, have been formed, as can be seen in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington (Freer Gallery of Art). In addition, there are many large museums and collections built by wealthy individuals, such as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, and there are also many university-affiliated museums, such as the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, based on the idea of ​​making museums a place of education or human development in a broad sense. ...

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Japanese:

…強大な経済力を背景として,大半はわずか数十年の間に築かれたアメリカの美術コレクションは,コレクターの個人的な趣味の反映であると同時に,一国一時代に偏しない広い視野に立って収集されたものが多い。その結果,たとえばボストン,クリーブランド,ワシントン(フリーア美術館Freer Gallery of Art)などに見られるように,日本,中国等を除けば,世界でも屈指の東洋美術のコレクションが形成されることになった。また,カリフォルニア州マリブMalibuのポール・ゲッティ美術館J.Paul Getty Museum,ワシントンのフィリップス・コレクションPhilips Collection等,富豪が築いた個人の大美術館,大コレクションの多いこと,美術館を広い意味での教育あるいは人間形成の場にしようとの理念から,ハーバード大学におけるフォッグ美術館Fogg Art Museumのように,大学付属の美術館が充実していることもアメリカの特色といえよう。…

※「Freer Gallery of Art」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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