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Collecting Objects/Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 by admin

In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas … Read more

Sacred modern: faith, activism, and aesthetics in the Menil Collection

August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 by admin

This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collectionothe first such study of a major art museumoexplores how the Collection embodies its founders’ desire to bind the … Read more