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Museum skepticism a history of the display of art in public galleries
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Title
Museum skepticism [electronic resource] : a history of the display of art in public galleries / David Carrier.
ISBN
9780822387572
0822387573
0822336820 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822336822 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822336944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822336945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
xiii, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-304)and index.
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
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