Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Ceuntury France

By Daniel J. Sherman

Choosing the art museums of provincial France in the previous century as a paradigm, Sherman (history, U. of Rochester) considers the museum's place in modern society through exploration of its past. He employs an array of previously unstudied archival sources as evidence that the museum's emergenc

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674962303
• ISBN13: 9780674962309
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"