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Author Conn, Steven.

Title Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926 / Steven Conn.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1998.

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Description 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-293) and index.
Contents 1. Museums and the Late Victorian World 2. "Naked Eye Science": Museums and Natural History 3. Between Science and Art: Museums and the Development of Anthropology 4. The Philadelphia Commercial Museum: A Museum to Conquer the World 5. Objects and American History: The Museums of Henry Mercer and Henry Ford 6. From South Kensington to the Louvre: Art Museums and the Creation of Fine Art 7. 1926: Of Fairs, Museums, and History.
Summary Conn's study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but he also draws attention to forgotten ones, like the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, once the repository for objects from many turn-of-the-century world's fairs. What emerges from Conn's analysis is that museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves. Using what Conn has termed "object-based epistemology," museums of the late nineteenth century were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced. According to Conn, not only did this mean a change in the way knowledge was conceived, but also, and perhaps more importantly, who would have access to it.
Processing Action Legacy 2017 UoY
Subject Museums -- United States -- History.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 1865-1921.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
Museums -- history. (DNLM)D009144Q000266
United States -- Vida intelectual -- 1865 1918.
United States -- Vida intelectual -- Siglo XX.
United States -- Historia -- 1865 1921.
United States -- Historia -- 1919 1933.
02.01 history of science and culture. (NL-LeOCL)077592433
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Museums. (OCoLC)fst01030128
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Geistesleben (DE-588)4274490-8
Museum (DE-588)4040795-0
United States (DE-588)4078704-7
Musea.
Intellectuele vorming.
Museum.
United States.
Chronological Term 1865-1999
Geschichte 1876-1926
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0226114929 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226114927 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226114937
9780226114934
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