Exhibiting Contradiction Essays on the Art Museum in the United States

Name: Exhibiting Contradiction Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
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ISBN: 9781558491182

ISBN-10: 155849118X

ISBN-13: 9781558491182

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Authors: Alan Wallach

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1

Long-Term Visions, Short-Term Failures: Art Institutions in the United States, 1800-1860	p. 9
William Wilson Corcoran's Failed National Gallery	p. 22
The American Cast Museum: An Episode in the History of the Institutional Definition of Art	p. 38
Samuel Parrish's Civilization	p. 57

The Museum of Modern Art: The Past's Future	p. 73
Regionalism Redux	p. 88
The Battle over "The West as America"	p. 105
Revisionism Has Transformed Art History but Not Museums	p. 118
Museums and Resistance to History	p. 123
Notes	p. 129
Index	p. 151
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