| Description |
xx, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The German art museum and the history of the nation / Detlef Hoffmann -- The Whitechapel picture exhibitions and the politics of seeing / Seth Koven -- "An elite experience for everyone" : art museums, the public, and cultural literacy / Vera L. Zolberg -- Identity as self-discovery : the ecomuseum in France / Dominique Poulot -- With open doors : museums and historical narratives in Israel's public space / Ariella Azoulay -- The museum as metaphor in nineteenth-century France / Chantal Georgel -- Quatremère/Benjamin/Marx : art museums, aura, and commodity fetishism / Daniel J. Sherman -- The struggle against the museums : or, The display of art in totalitarian space / Boris Groys -- "Degenerate art" and Documenta I : modernism ostracized and disarmed / Walter Grasskamp -- The times and spaces of history : representation, Assyria, and the British Museum / Frederick N. Bohrer -- From ruins to debris : the feminization of Fascism in German-history museums / Irit Rogoff -- A new center : the National Museum of Women in the Arts / Anne Higonnet -- Selling nations : international exhibitions and cultural diplomacy / Brian Wallis |
| Analysis |
Museums |
| Notes |
Simultaneously published by University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art and state.
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Art museums -- Environmental aspects.
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Art museums -- Philosophy.
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Art museums -- Educational aspects.
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Art -- Exhibition techniques.
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| Author |
Rogoff, Irit.
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Sherman, Daniel J.
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Harvard University. Center for European Studies.
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| LC no. |
00001087 |
| ISBN |
0415092736 |
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0415092744 (paperback) |
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