Exhibiting contradiction
Subtitle: essays on the art museum in the United States
By: Alan Wallach.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amherst, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781558491175; 9781558491182
Subjects: Art museums -- Educational aspects -- United States; Art -- Exhibition techniques
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-149) and index.
Table of contents: title: Long-term visions, short-tem failures: art institutions in the United States, 1800-1860; title: William Wilson Corcoran's failed national gallery; title: The American cast museum: an episode in the history of the institutional definition of art; title: Samuel Parrish's civilization; title: The Museum of Modern Art: the past's future; title: Regionalism redux; title: The battle over "The West as America"; title: Revisionism has transformed art history but not museums; title: Museums and resistance to history.