Do museums still need objects? / Steven Conn.

SeriesThe arts and intellectual life in modern America
Arts and intellectual life in modern America. ^A707797
Contents 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.
Abstract 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, and about public institutions and the changing nature of their constituencies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index.
LCCN 2009012615
ISBN9780812241907 (alk. paper)
ISBN0812241908 (alk. paper)

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