The curator's egg : the evolution of the museum concept from the French Revolution to the present day / Karsten Schubert.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schubert, Karsten
Language:English
Published: London : Ridinghouse, 2009.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1760-2008
Geschichte 1760-2008.
Museums > History.
Museums > Philosophy > History.
Museum techniques > History.
History.
Museum.
Konzeption.
Museum techniques.
Museums.
Museums > Philosophy.
Museums / History.
Museum techniques / History.
Museums / Philosophy / History.
Genre:
History.
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Physical Description:187 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Paris and London, 1760-1870
  • Berlin, 1900-1930
  • New York, 1930-1950
  • Europe, 1945-1970
  • Paris, 1970-1980
  • After the Centre Pompidou
  • The "discovery" of the audience
  • Artists
  • Politics
  • Architecture 1: making and remaking museums
  • An experiment: the global museum
  • Architecture 2: museum makeovers
  • Modes of display
  • Bouvard and Pécuchet: epilogue
  • Democracy of spectacle: the museum revisited.