‘Relics of Another Age: Art History, the “Decorative Arts” and the Museum’, ABV49: The Annual Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2010, 7-21.
This paper traces an historiography of the problematic category ‘decorative arts’ and considers how the aesthetic hierarchies implicit in this term are given concrete expression in the display strategies of the art museum. The manner in which the art museum, as a framing device for material culture...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_183181_en.pdf |