Title: The Idea of the museum :
Authors: Aagaard-Mogensen, Lars,
Date: 1988
Publisher: E. Mellen Press,
Physical description: 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Why preservation? / Hubert G. Alexander -- An ethnographic museum design / Rolf Gilberg -- A living museum / Else Mogensen -- The art museum and the status of the arts / Teddy Brunius -- mUSEeums / John Fisher -- Why exhibit works of art? / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- The concept of the art museum / Monroe C. Beardsley -- The idea of the museum / Göran Schildt -- The museum : past, present and future / E.H. Gombrich -- The museum today / Harold Rosenberg -- The end of the museum? / Nelson Goodman -- Museums or mausoleums / Charles Altieri -- The idea of an art museum / Joseph Margolis -- Old junk and new money / Stephen Leacock -- The museum world / Lars Aagaard-Morgensen.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art museums--Philosophy.; Art--Exhibitions.; Museums--Philosophy.