Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France

by Daniel J. Sherman

Attracting controversy as readily as they do crowds, art museums--the Grand Louvre project and the new Orsay in Paris, or the proposed Whitney and Guggenheim additions in New York, for example--occupy a curious but central position in world culture. Choosing the art museums of provincial France in the previous century as a paradigm, Daniel Sherman reaches toward an understanding of the museum's place in modern society by exploring its past. He uses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674433335
• ISBN13: 9780674433335
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"