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Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection Pamela G. Smart
Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection
Pamela G. Smart
This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collection--the first such study of a major art museum--explores how the Collection embodies its founders' desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils' legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyond their lifetimes.
294 pages, 35 b&w photos
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 15, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780292737587 |
| Publishers | University of Texas Press |
| Pages | 294 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 21 mm · 454 g |
| Language | English |