Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles
Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles
by Daniel Sherman
contributions by Irit Rogoff
University of Minnesota Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-8166-1953-5
Library of Congress Classification N430.M78 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 708
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Introduction: Frameworks for Critical Analysis
- Sherman,
Daniel J.
- Rogoff,
Irit
- Part I
- Histories
- 1.
- The German Art Museum and the History of the Nation
- 2.
- The Whitechapel Picture Exhibitions and the Politics of Seeing
- 3.
- “An Elite Experience for Everyone”: Art Museums, the Public, and Cultural Literacy
- 4.
- Identity as Self-Discovery: The Ecomuseum in France
- 5.
- With Open Doors: Museums and Historical Narratives in Israel's Public Space
- Part II
- Discourses
- 6.
- The Museum as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France
- 7.
- Quatremère/Benjamin/Marx: Art Museums, Aura, and Commodity Fetishism
- 8.
- The Struggle against the Museum; or, The Display of Art in Totalitarian Space
- 9.
- “Degenerate Art” and Documenta I: Modernism Ostracized and Disarmed
- Part III
- Spectacles
- 10.
- The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum
- 11.
- From Ruins to Debris: The Feminization of Fascism in German-History Museums
- 12.
- A New Center: The National Museum of Women in the Arts
- 13.
- Selling Nations: International Exhibitions and Cultural Diplomacy