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Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust

Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral ArtArt & Popular Culture

ISBN10: 0691127816
ISBN13: 9780691127811
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Oct 3 2006
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.99 Depth: 9.05
Language: English

During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and ambition. They came to be seen as new civic centers: on the one hand as places of entertainment, leisure, and commerce, on the other as socially therapeutic institutions. But museums were also criticized for everything from elitism to looting or illegally exporting works from other countries, to exhibiting works offensive to the public taste.


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