Do museums still need objects?

Conn ranges across a wide variety of museum types--from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums--asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non-Western societies, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Conn, Steven (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press cop. 2010
Colección:The arts and intellectual life in modern America
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Thinking about museums
  • Do museums still need objects?
  • Whose objects? Whose culture? The contexts of repatriation
  • Where is the East?
  • Where have all the grown-ups gone?
  • The birth and the death of a museum
  • Museums, public space, and civic identity.