The Value of Things
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783764363161
Subjects: Cultural studies; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Industrial / Commercial Art & Design; Philosophy; Sociology; Design; Art; Architecture; Sociology - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Architecture / General; Design - General
First sentence: Although the modern public museum - a space to generate and police narratives regarding all objects, images and information - found its ideal form at the end of the nineteenth century, the tangled roots of museological culture reach back much further into history.