The Discipline of Pleasure; or, How Art History Looks at the Art Museum

The central aim of this essay is to generate a critically detailed and fully historicised reading of one specific example of the institutionalisation of visual culture. By attending to its complexity as an aesthetic, social and managerial space, I want to examine how the act of seeing was inscribed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colin Trodd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2003-01-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/11