TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carrier,David
TI  - Museum skepticism: a history of the display of art in public galleries 
SN  - 0822336820
AV  - N430 .C37 2006
U1  - 708.009 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Art museums
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Art
KW  - Exhibition techniques
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-304) and index; 1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre -- 2. Art and power : time travel in the museum -- 3. Museum skeptics -- 4. Picturing museum skepticism -- 5. Art museum narratives -- 6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- 7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art -- 8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum -- 9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty museum -- 10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities -- Conclusion : What the public art museum might become
ER  -