Do museums still need objects / Steven Conn.
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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| Summary: | 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, and about public institutions and the changing nature of their constituencies. |
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| Physical Description: | 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0812241908 9780812241907 |