Do museums still need objects?

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Main Author: Conn, Steven.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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245 1 0 |a Do museums still need objects?  |c Steven Conn 
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300 |a 262 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a The arts and intellectual life in modern America 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Thinking about museums -- Do museums still need objects? -- Whose objects? Whose culture? The contexts of repatriation -- Where is the East? -- Where have all the grown-ups gone? -- The birth and the death of a museum -- Museums, public space, and civic identity. 
590 |a HSP credit line: Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum, c. 1840 from Illustrated News; b1609, Interior of Chinese Museum, 1838. Kennedy Watercolor Collection (K:3-95.1) 
650 0 |a Museums  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Museum exhibits  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Museums  |x Collection management  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Cultural property  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Art objects  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Museums  |x Political aspects  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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