TY - BOOK AU - Carrier,David ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Museum skepticism: a history of the display of art in public galleries AV - N430 .C37 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Art museums KW - Social aspects KW - Philosophy KW - Art KW - Exhibition techniques KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-304)and index; 1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre -- 2. Art and power : time travel in the museum -- 3. Museum skeptics -- 4. Picturing museum skepticism -- 5. Art museum narratives -- 6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- 7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art -- 8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum -- 9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty museum -- 10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities -- Conclusion : What the public art museum might become; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1169313 ER -