Museums and the Construction of Disciplines: Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Christopher Whitehead

Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of 'archaeological' and 'artistic' material culture, looking especially at the ways in which objects and histories were contested within museum politics. For...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715635085
• ISBN13: 9780715635087
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.4"