Making and Effacing Art: Modern American Art in a Culture of Museums

by Philip Fisher

Book Overview

In his 1923 essay, "The Problem of Museums," Paul Valery called the museum a "strange organized disorder" and likened it to a room where ten orchestras played simultaneously. Malraux similarly argued that the museum was a place for "pitting works of art against each other." But regardless of their problems, museums have become powerful influences in modern culture, deciding which artists and which of their works are to be preserved as part of our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195060466
• ISBN13: 9780195060461
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"