Author: Sheehan, James J.
Title: Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. orig.boards. 24x15cm, xiii,258 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: 18th-Century Origins: Art, Morality & History; Court & Public; Princely Spaces; Museums & the Age of Revolution, 1789-1830: The Ideal of an Aesthetic Community; Art & the Civic Order; The First Museums; The Museum Age, 1830-1880: Past & Present; Museums as Public Institutions; Monumental Museums; Museums & Modernism, 1880 - 1914: Critiques of a Museum Culture; Museums in an Expanding Art World; Toward the Modern Museum; Conclusion.

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