Museum Legs

Name: Museum Legs
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ISBN: 9781936102006

ISBN-10: 1936102005

ISBN-13: 9781936102006

Edition: 2009

Authors: Amy Whitaker

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An irreverent, highly original look at our rocky relationship with museums and museums' rocky relationship with us.If you've ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I'll do something else . . . If you've ever arrived and left a little glazed and confused . . . If you've ever thought, I might read an eight-page article about art museums but not a whole book . . . Then this is your story."Museum Legs"--taken from a term for art fatigue--starts with a question: Why do people get bored and tired in art museums and why does that matter? As Whitaker writes in this humorous and incisive collection of essays, museums matter for reasons that have less to do with art as we…

Book details

List price: $18.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Hol Art Books
Publication date: 9/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Museum Legs


First Friday


Liederkranz


The Insulated Judiciary


On the Origins


Ladies Who Launch


Revenge of the Homunculus


On Boredom


Why Museums Matter


Exhibitionism and Appreciation


Making Copies


Alfred Barr Got Fired: Art Museums as Art Projects


Women in Fancy Sweatshirts


Epilogue


Notes


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