Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Frameworks for Critical Analysis......Page 10
The German Art Museum and the History of the Nation......Page 24
The Whitechapel Picture Exhibitions and the Politics of Seeing......Page 43
~An Elite Experience for Everyone~: Art Museums, the Public, and Cultural Literacy......Page 70
Identity as Self-Discovery: The Ecomuseum in France......Page 87
With Open Doors: Museums and Historical Narratives in Israel's Public Space......Page 106
The Museum as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France......Page 134
Quatremre/Benjamin/Marx: Art Museums, Aura, and Commodity Fetishism......Page 144
The Struggle against the Museum; or, The Display of Art in Totalitarian Space......Page 165
~Degenerate Art~ and Documenta I: Modernism Ostracized and Disarmed......Page 184
The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum......Page 218
From Ruins to Debris: The Feminization of Fascism in German-History Museums......Page 244
A New Center: The National Museum of Women in the Arts......Page 271
Selling Nations: International Exhibitions and Cultural Diplomacy......Page 286
Contributors......Page 304
Index......Page 308