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The Absent Museum

Paperback • 2017 • English

The Absent Museum

By Dirk Snauwaert

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About the book

How can artists maintain the tension between globalization's paradoxes and history's turbulences and their individual sensibilities and voices? In light of recent tumultuous historical developments, this book, accompanying an exhibition at WIELS, Brussels, discusses the striking absence of art museums in urgent, public debate. Although museums-especially those devoted to contemporary art-have never been as popular as they are today, they are still notably missing from the public space and their ...Show more

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ISBN

9780300229141

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

The Absent Museum

Format

Paperback

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