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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conn, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Colección:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.