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• Title:Museum skepticism : a history of the display of art in public galleries / David Carrier.
  
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• Author/Creator:Carrier, David, 1944-
  
• Published/Created:Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.
  

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  • Call Number: N430 .C37 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N430 .C37 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art museums--Social aspects.
  Art museums--Philosophy.
  Art--Exhibition techniques.
  
• Description:xiii, 313 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-304) and index.
  
• ISBN:0822336820 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0822336944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• 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. display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty Museum
  10. end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities
  Conclusion : what the public art museum might become.