Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art - The Politics of Artistic Display in France After 1968

This book shows how the protests in France in 1968 affected the museum establishment.

List of contents

1. Museums as political centers; 2. Dismantling art institutions: the 1968 explosion of social awareness; 3. Christian Boltanski's personal memorabilia: remaking museums in the wake of 1968; 4. Annette Messager's images of the everyday: the feminist recasting of '68; 5. Institutionalizing '68: the Pompidou center; 6. America and Europe post-Pompidou: sustaining the new political mission of the museum.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Deroo, Rebecca (Washington University Deroo, DeRoo Rebecca
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107656918
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65691-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc