By examining the changes in the way museums displayed objects in the 1920’s, this article contributes to a debate about the ways in which cultural institutions of the United States serve their communities. Are they democratic or do they create “distinctions” among a moneyed elite ? Institutional differences between center and periphery indicate a changing cultural climate. At the center, collections accumulated invisible status ; on the margins, they were dominated by founders who resisted the trends of the period that would have framed and presented their collections as treasures from a more or less distant and invisible past. Following a model set by Charles Wilson Peale, these founders insisted on the usefulness of their collections and ...
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This article addresses some of the recent, ongoing, and planned reconfigurations of museums in Europ...
Between this country\u27s Centennial and its Sesqui-centennial, the years described in this disserta...
Institutionalizing Imagination utilizes the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) to\ud understand how on...
The purpose of this study is to trace the roots and early development of the American art museum, ba...
According to one of Americans most cherished myths, the best way to insure democratic self-reliance ...
It is surprising that little research has been conducted by Eliasians on museums and that, with some...
Philadelphia, in 1800, was the cultural metropolis of the Republic. In the ensuing fifty years, as t...
The book is an investigation of American collecting between 1900 and 1914 and of the impact of trans...
The tectonic social upheavals of the 16th through the 18th centuries that produced the bourgeois st...
Today’s networked society offers us many wondrous possibilities of information, communication, mobil...
Today’s networked society offers us many wondrous possibilities of information, communication, mobil...
In a dissertation about museums on the American frontier in the early 19th century, I trace the demi...
Museums are much more than containers of things. They are institutions that reveal a great deal abou...
This article uses a new database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic to explore how high cul...
How did industrial museums cross the Atlantic? When the first American museums of science and indust...
This article addresses some of the recent, ongoing, and planned reconfigurations of museums in Europ...
Between this country\u27s Centennial and its Sesqui-centennial, the years described in this disserta...
Institutionalizing Imagination utilizes the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) to\ud understand how on...
The purpose of this study is to trace the roots and early development of the American art museum, ba...
According to one of Americans most cherished myths, the best way to insure democratic self-reliance ...
It is surprising that little research has been conducted by Eliasians on museums and that, with some...
Philadelphia, in 1800, was the cultural metropolis of the Republic. In the ensuing fifty years, as t...
The book is an investigation of American collecting between 1900 and 1914 and of the impact of trans...
The tectonic social upheavals of the 16th through the 18th centuries that produced the bourgeois st...
Today’s networked society offers us many wondrous possibilities of information, communication, mobil...
Today’s networked society offers us many wondrous possibilities of information, communication, mobil...
In a dissertation about museums on the American frontier in the early 19th century, I trace the demi...
Museums are much more than containers of things. They are institutions that reveal a great deal abou...
This article uses a new database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic to explore how high cul...
How did industrial museums cross the Atlantic? When the first American museums of science and indust...
This article addresses some of the recent, ongoing, and planned reconfigurations of museums in Europ...