Museums and american intellectual live, 1876-1926 / Steven Conn

By:

Conn, Steven

Publication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 1998Description: VII, 305 pISBN:

0226114929

Summary: During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums were built. In this impressive study, Steve Conn argues that Americans, endowed with the belief that knowledge resided in objects themselves, built these institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the, world’s knowledge. Conn discovers how museums gave definition to different areas of scholarship, and how they occupied a central place in America's intellectual life. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC	PM03 Con 98	1	Available		1900058764

Acknowledgments -- 1. Museums and the Late Victorian World -- 2. "Naked Eye Science": Museums and Natural History -- 3. Between Science and Art: Museums and the Development of Anthropology -- 4. The Philadelphia Commercial Museum: A Museum to Conquer the World -- 5. Objects and American History: The Museums of Henry Mercer and Henry Ford -- 6. From South Kensington to the Louvre: Art Museums and the Creation of Fine Art -- 7. 1926: Of Fairs, Museums, and History -- Notes

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