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Exhibiting contradiction : essays on the art museum in the United States
- Title
- Exhibiting contradiction : essays on the art museum in the United States / Alan Wallach.
- Author
- Wallach, Alan, 1942-
- Publication
- Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998.
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Details
- Description
- x, 152 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Art museums > Educational aspects > United States
- Art > Exhibition techniques
- Art > Exhibition techniques
- Art museums > Educational aspects
- Ausstellung
- Geschichte
- Kunstmuseum
- Museum
- Präsentation
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Kunstmusea
- Collectievorming
- Nationale kenmerken
- Musées > États-Unis
- Pédagogie muséale
- Expositions et société
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-149) and index.
- Contents
- Long-term visions, short-term failures: art institutions in the United States, 1800-1860. -- William Wilson Corcoran's failed national gallery. -- The American cast museum: an episode in the history of the institutional definition of art. -- Samuel Parrish's civilization. -- The Museum of Modern Art: the past's future. -- Regionalism redux. -- The battle over "The West as America". -- Revisionism has transformed art history but not museums. -- Museums and resistance to history.
- ISBN
- 1558491171
- 9781558491175
- 155849118X
- 9781558491182
- LCCN
- 97028371
- OCLC
- ocm37239110
- 37239110
- SCSB-798340
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library