Museum culture : histories, discourses, spectacles / Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff, editors.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1994], ©1994.

xx, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Introduction : frameworks for critical analysis / Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff -- The German Art Museum and the history of the nation / Detlef Hoffmann -- The Whitechapel picture exhibitions and the politics of seeing / Seth Koven -- "An elite experience for everyone" : art museums, the public, and cultural literacy / Vera L. Zolberg -- Identity as self-discovery : the ecomuseum in France / Dominique Poulot -- With open doors : museums and historical narratives in Israel's public space / Ariella Azoulay -- The museum as metaphor in nineteenth-century France / Chantal Georgel -- Quatremére/Benjamin/Marx : art museums, aura, and commodity fetishism / Daniel J. Sherman -- The struggle against the museum ; or, the display of art in totalitarian space / Boris Groys -- "Degenerate art" and documenta I : modernism ostracized and disarmed / Walter Grasskamp -- The times and spaces of history : representation, Assyria, and the British museum / Frederick N. Bohrer -- From ruins to debris : the feminization of fascism in Germany-History museums / Irit Rogoff -- A new center : the national museum of women in the arts / Anne Higonnet -- Selling nations : international exhibitions and cultural diplomacy / Brian Wallis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.