Do museums still need objects /
Steven Conn.
- 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The arts and intellectual life in modern America .
- Arts and intellectual life in modern America. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index.
Introduction: Thinking about museums -- Do museums still need objects? -- Whose objects? Whose culture? The contexts of repatriation -- Where is the East? -- Where have all the grown-ups gone? -- The birth and the death of a museum -- Museums, public space, and civic identity.
Conn ranges across a wide variety of museum types--from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums--asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non-Western societies, and about public institutions and the changing nature of their constituencies.
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Museums--History--United States--20th century. Museum exhibits--History--United States--20th century. Museums--Collection management--History--United States--20th century. Cultural property--History--United States--20th century. Art objects--History--United States--20th century. Museums--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century. Museums--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.