Long-Term Visions, Short-Term Failures: Art Institutions in the United States, 1800-1860 -- William Wilson Corcoran's Failed National Gallery -- The American Cast Museum: An Episode in the History of the Institutional Definition of Art -- Samuel Parrish's Civilization -- The Museum of Modern Art: The Past's Future -- Regionalism Redux -- The Battle over "The West as America" -- Revisionism Has Transformed Art History but Not Museums -- Museums and Resistance to History
Analysis
USA
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-149) and index
Notes
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