Museums and Modernity : Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture (Leisure, Consumption and Culture)

"Nick Prior's lucid and intelligent book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the contradictory dynamics characterising the relations between art museums and modernity. An essential and provoking study." --Tony Bennett, The Open University

"A timely and exciting book that makes a substantial historical as well as theoretically astute contribution to a critical field of museum and cultural studies." --Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds

"This lively, excellent and compelling study of three great national galleries of art during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a must for anyone who is interested in museum issues . . . The book is a study in the historical sociology of museums which is of profound relevance to current debates about citizenship and cultural equality." --Gordon Fyfe, Keele University

"This Bourdieu-inspired cultural/sociological history considerably expands existing understanding of the formation of the modern European art market and museum, and of the strategies deployed by its urban bourgeoisie to gain cultural dominance." --New Formations

Museums and Modernity : Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture (Leisure, Consumption and Culture),Nick Prior,Berg Publishers,1859735088,Anthropology - Cultural,Art & Art Instruction,Art and state,Art museums,Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum,Europe,General,Great Britain,History,History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945),Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Sociology,Cultural studies,History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -,Museums & Museology,Social Science / Popular Culture

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