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A leading scholar of art, art history, and American studies considers the way art museums have depicted American society and the American past. In closely focused and often controversial essays, Alan Wallach explores the opposing ideologies that drove the development of the American art museum in the 19th century and the tensions and contradictions characteristic of recent museum history. 40 illustrations.
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Exhibiting Contradiction : Essays On the Art Museum in the United States
author
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Wallach, Alan.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558491171
print isbn13
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9781558491175
ebook isbn13
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9780585084237
language
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English
subject
Art museums--Educational aspects--United States, Art--Exhibition techniques.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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N510.W35 1998eb
ddc
:
708.13
subject
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Art museums--Educational aspects--United States, Art--Exhibition techniques.
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Exhibiting Contradiction
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
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Exhibiting Contradiction
Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
Alan Wallach
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Copyright 1998 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Set in Garamond. Printed and bound by Thomson Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wallach, Alan. Exhibiting contradiction: essays on the art museum in the United States / Alan Wallach. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-117-1 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-118-x (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Art museumsEducational aspectsUnited States. 2. ArtExhibition techniques. I. Title. N 510.W 35 1998 708.13dc21 97-28371 CIP
Several chapters of this book were previously published in slightly different forms. Their earlier appearances are listed with the notes to those chapters.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the College of William and Mary.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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To the memory of Israel Wallach (19031971)
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
Part I
1 Long-Term Visions, Short-Term Failures: Art Institutions in the United States, 18001860
9
2 William Wilson Corcoran's Failed National Gallery
22
3 The American Cast Museum: An Episode in the History of the Institutional Definition of Art
38
4 Samuel Parrish's Civilization
57
Part II
5 The Museum of Modern Art: The Past's Future
73
6 Regionalism Redux
88
7 The Battle over "The West as America"
105
8 Revisionism Has Transformed Art History but Not Museums
118
9 Museums and Resistance to History
123
Notes
129
Index
151
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1 John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos
12
1.2 John Casilear after Daniel Huntington, A Sibyl
13
1.3 Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth
19
1.4 John F. Kensett, Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor
20
2.1 W. W. Corcoran
26
2.2 The Greek Slave, from the original statue by Hiram Powers
29
2.3 Corcoran Gallery, exterior
30
2.4 The Sculpture Hall, Corcoran Gallery of Art
33
2.5 Corcoran Gallery of Art, ground plan
34
2.6 Main Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art
35
3.1 Laocon, cast
40
3.2 Venus de Milo, cast
42
3.3 Winged Victory, Parthenon Pediment Figures, and Section of the Parthenon Frieze, casts
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