| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-249) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1 Eighteenth-Century Origins; 2 Museums and the Age of Revolution, 1789-1830; 3 The Museum Age, 1830-1880; 4 Museums and Modernism, 1880-1914; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Combining the history of ideas, institutions and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late-18th to the early-20th century. On a broader level, it explains the origin and character of the museum's role in modern culture. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art museums -- Germany -- History.
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Art museums. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sheehan, James J. Museums in the German art world from the end of the old regime to the rise of modernism. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195135725 (DLC) 99053648 (OCoLC)42690178 |
| ISBN |
1423760603 (electronic book) |
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9781423760603 (electronic book) |
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9781602569560 |
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1602569568 |
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128047341X |
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9781280473418 |
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9780195135725 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0195135725 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0195135725 (Cloth) |
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