Do Museums Still Need Objects?

Informationen zum Autor By Steven Conn Klappentext Steven Conn is the author of Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung In this broadly conceived study Steven Conn examines the development of American museums across the twentieth century with a historian's attention and a critic's eye. He focuses on an array of museum types and asks illuminating questions about the relationship between museums and American cultural life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Thinking about Museums Chapter 1. Do Museums Still Need Objects? Chapter 2.Whose Objects? Whose Culture? The Contexts of Repatriation Chapter 3. Where Is the East? Chapter 4. Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone? Chapter 5. The Birth and the Death of a Museum Chapter 6. Museums, Public Space, and Civic Identity Notes Index Acknowledgments

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• Authors: Steven Conn
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2010
• EAN: 9780812221558
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2155-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America S.; Arts and Intellectual Life in; The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America; The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America; Arts and Intellectual Life in
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries