The Porous Museum: The Politics of Art, Rupture and Recycling in Modern Romania

by Gabriela Nicolescu

Book Overview

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. The museum has functioned successively as a museum of art, a communist museum, the headquarters of the communist secret police, and a museum of folk art. Gabriela Nicolescu traces the museum's spectacular biography and follows the transformation of its practices and aesthetics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350400084
• ISBN13: 9781350400085
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"