Bringing together contributors from a broad range of perspectives from history to critical theory, this book argues that museums have become an institution and metaphor in contemporary society.[...]
Attracting controversy as readily as they do crowds, art museums--the Grand Louvre project and the new Orsay in Paris, or the proposed Whitney and Guggenheim additions in New York, for example--occupy a curious but central position in world culture. Choosing the art museums of provincial France in t[...]