Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism

by James J. Sheehan

Book Overview

Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. On a broader level, it illuminates the origin and character of the museum's central role in modern culture.
James Sheehan begins by describing the establishment of the first public galleries during the last decades of Germany's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195135725
• ISBN13: 9780195135725
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"