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Museum memories : history, technology, art / Didier Maleuvre.

Museum memories : history, technology, art / Didier Maleuvre.
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ISBN 0804732027 (alk. paper)
0804736049 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Maleuvre, Didier
Title Museum memories : history, technology, art / Didier Maleuvre.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Description xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Cultural memory in the present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
Contents 1. Museum Times -- 2. Bringing the Museum Home: The Domestic Interior in the Nineteenth-Century -- 3. Balzacana.
Summary From its inception in the early nineteenth century, the museum has been more than a mere historical object; it has manufactured an image of history. The museum believes in history, yet it behaves as though history could be summarized and completed. This twofold process explains the paradoxical character of museums. They have been accused of being both too heavy with historical dust and too historically spotless, excessively historicizing artworks while cutting them off from the historical life in which artworks are born. Thus the museum seems contradictory because it lectures about the historical nature of its objects while denying the same objects the living historical connection about which it purports to educate.
The contradictory character of museums leads the author to a philosophical reflection on history, one that reconsiders the concept of culture and the historical value of art in light of the philosophers, artists, and writers who are captivated by the museum. Together, their voices prompt a reevaluation of the concepts of historical consciousness, artistic identity, and the culture of objects in the modern period.
Subjects Culture -- Historiography
Historical museums -- History
Historiography -- History
History -- Philosophy
Museums -- Historiography
Call number 069.5 MAL
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