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Museum skepticism : a history of the display of art in public galleries
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Museum skepticism : a history of the display of art in public galleries

Author: David Carrier
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : eBook : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Carrier
ISBN: 0822336820 9780822336822 0822336944 9780822336945
OCLC Number: 62281739
Description: xiii, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre -- 2. Art and power : time travel in the museum -- 3. Museum skeptics -- 4. Picturing museum skepticism -- 5. Art museum narratives -- 6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- 7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art -- 8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum -- 9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty museum -- 10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities -- Conclusion : What the public art museum might become
Responsibility: David Carrier.
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