Museum Culture,9780816619535

Museum Culture

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ISBN13: 9780816619535
ISBN10: 0816619530
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Frameworks for Critical Analysis ix
Daniel J. Sherman
Irit Rogoff
Part I Histories
The German Art Museum and the History of the Nation
3(19)
Detlef Hoffmann
The Whitechapel Picture Exhibitions and the Politics of Seeing
22(27)
Seth Koven
``An Elite Experience for Everyone'': Art Museums, the Public, and Cultural Literacy
49(17)
Vera L. Zolberg
Identity as Self-Discovery: The Ecomuseum in France
66(19)
Dominique Poulot
With Open Doors: Museums and Historical Narratives in Israel's Public Space
85(28)
Ariella Azoulay
Part II Discourses
The Museum as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France
113(10)
Chantal Georgel
Quatremere/Benjamin/Marx: Art Museums, Aura, and Commodity Fetishism
123(21)
Daniel J. Sherman
The Struggle against the Museum; or, The Display of Art in Totalitarian Space
144(19)
Boris Groys
``Degenerate Art'' and Documenta I: Modernism Ostracized and Disarmed
163(34)
Walter Grasskamp
Part III Spectacles
The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum
197(26)
Frederick N. Bohrer
From Ruins to Debris: The Feminization of Fascism in German-History Museums
223(27)
Irit Rogoff
A New Center: The National Museum of Women in the Arts
250(15)
Anne Higonnet
Selling Nations: International Exhibitions and Cultural Diplomacy
265(18)
Brian Wallis
Contributors 283(4)
Index 287

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