Making and Effacing Art: Modern American Art in a Culture of Museums

by Philip Fisher

Book Overview

In his 1923 essay, "The Problem of Museums," Paul Valery called the museum a "strange organized disorder" and likened it to a room where ten orchestras played simultaneously. Malraux similarly argued... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067454305X
• ISBN13: 9780674543058
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 10.0"