Exhibiting Contradiction

Exhibiting Contradiction
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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages : 176
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Download or read book Exhibiting Contradiction written by Alan Wallach and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Exhibiting Contradiction, a leading scholar considers the way art museums have depicted--and continue to depict--American society and the American past. In closely focused and often controversial essays, Alan Wallach explores the opposing ideologies that drove the development of the American art museum in the nineteenth century and the tensions and contradictions characteristic of recent museum history.


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