Main entry:

Wallach, Alan, 1942-

Title & Author:

Exhibiting contradiction : essays on the art museum in the United States / Alan Wallach.

Publication:

Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998.

Description:

x, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-149) and index.
Long-term visions, short-term failures: art institutions in the United States, 1800-1860. -- William Wilson Corcoran's failed national gallery. -- The American cast museum: an episode in the history of the institutional definition of art. -- Samuel Parrish's civilization. -- The Museum of Modern Art: the past's future. -- Regionalism redux. -- The battle over "The West as America". -- Revisionism has transformed art history but not museums. -- Museums and resistance to history.

ISBN:

1558491171 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781558491175 (cloth ; alk. paper)
155849118X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781558491182 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art museums Educational aspects United States.
Art Exhibition techniques.
Art Musées Aspect éducatif États-Unis.
Art Techniques d'exposition.
Musées d'art Aspect éducatif États-Unis.
Art museums Educational aspects
Ausstellung
Geschichte
Kunstmuseum
Museum
Präsentation
Aufsatzsammlung
Kunstmusea.
Collectievorming.
Nationale kenmerken.
Musées États-Unis.
Musées Aspect éducatif.
Expositions Sociologie.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191491
Call No.: ID N510.W35; ID:97-B2432
Status: Available