Exhibiting Contradiction by Alan WallachISBN: 9780585084237
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
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.