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Museum, Inc.
Paul Werner
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Description for Museum, Inc.
Paperback. Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. Written in a witty and argumentative style, this book describes the art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture. Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: AB; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 120 x 5. Weight in Grams: 74.
Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. "Museum, Inc." describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture. Paul Werner draws on his nine years at the Guggenheim Museum to reveal that contemporary art museums have not broken radically with the past, as often claimed. Rather, Werner observes, they are the logical outcome of the evolution of cultural institutions rooted in the Enlightenment, the colonial expansion of the liberal nation-state, and the ... Read more
Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. "Museum, Inc." describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture. Paul Werner draws on his nine years at the Guggenheim Museum to reveal that contemporary art museums have not broken radically with the past, as often claimed. Rather, Werner observes, they are the logical outcome of the evolution of cultural institutions rooted in the Enlightenment, the colonial expansion of the liberal nation-state, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
115
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780976147510
SKU
V9780976147510
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About Paul Werner
Paul Werner is the editor of WOID and the publisher of the Orange Press. He is a lecturer at New York University and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
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