Philip Fisher charts the pivotal role the museum has played in modern culture, revealing why it has become central to industrial society and how, in turn, artists have adapted to the museum's growing power, shaping their works with the museum in mind. He explores how, over the last two centuries, museums have presented art objects outside their original context, effacing them, in order to represent them in a sequential ordering of styles. It is this sequence that artists such as Jasper Johns and Frank Stella have mirrored, even parodied. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of modern art and culture.
- ISBN10 067454305X
- ISBN13 9780674543058
- Publish Date 25 March 1997 (first published 31 October 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English