| Description |
xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre -- 2. Art and power : time travel in the museum -- 3. Museum skeptics -- 4. Picturing museum skepticism -- 5. Art museum narratives -- 6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- 7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art -- 8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum -- 9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty Museum -- 10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities -- Conclusion : what the public art museum might become |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art museums -- Social aspects.
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Art museums -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Exhibition techniques.
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| LC no. |
2005031585 |
| ISBN |
0822336944 paperback |
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0822336820 hardback |
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