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Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
Museums and American Intellectual Life 18761926
Author: Steven Conn
During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums were built. In this original and daring study, Steven Conn argues that Americans, endowed with the belief that knowledge resided in objects themselves, built these institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226114927
ISBN-10: 0226114929
Publication Date: 12/1/1998
Pages: 314
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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