1st Edition

Museum Culture Histories, Discourses, Spectacles

By Itit Rogoff, Daniel J. Sherman Copyright 1994
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

Museums display much more than artifacts; Museum Culture makes us on a tour through the complex of ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting today. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives from history, art history, critical theory and sociology, the contributors to this new collection argue that museums have become a central institution and metaphor in... Read more
The contributors: Ariella Azoulay, Frederick N. Bohrer, Chantal George, Walter Grasskamp, Boris Growys, Anne Higonnet, Detlef Hoffman, Seth Koven, Dominique Poulot, Irit `ogoff, Daniel J. Sherman, Brian Wallis, Vera L. Zolberg

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Itit Rogoff, Daniel J. Sherman