Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: Frameworks for Critical Analysis

Daniel J. Sherman

Irit Rogoff

Part I Histories

The German Art Museum and the History of the Nation

(19)

Detlef Hoffmann

The Whitechapel Picture Exhibitions and the Politics of Seeing

(27)

Seth Koven

``An Elite Experience for Everyone'': Art Museums, the Public, and Cultural Literacy

(17)

Vera L. Zolberg

Identity as Self-Discovery: The Ecomuseum in France

(19)

Dominique Poulot

With Open Doors: Museums and Historical Narratives in Israel's Public Space

(28)

Ariella Azoulay

Part II Discourses

The Museum as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France

113

(10)

Chantal Georgel

Quatremere/Benjamin/Marx: Art Museums, Aura, and Commodity Fetishism

123

(21)

Daniel J. Sherman

The Struggle against the Museum; or, The Display of Art in Totalitarian Space

144

(19)

Boris Groys

``Degenerate Art'' and Documenta I: Modernism Ostracized and Disarmed

163

(34)

Walter Grasskamp

Part III Spectacles

The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum

197

(26)

Frederick N. Bohrer

From Ruins to Debris: The Feminization of Fascism in German-History Museums

223

(27)

Irit Rogoff

A New Center: The National Museum of Women in the Arts

250

(15)

Anne Higonnet

Selling Nations: International Exhibitions and Cultural Diplomacy

265

(18)

Brian Wallis

Contributors

283

(4)

Index

287

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