MUSEUMS AND AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL LIFE, 1876-1926
Book ID/图书代码： 13560007B11327
English Summary/英文概要： During the last half of the 19th century, Americans built many of the country’s most celebrated museums, such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Chicago’s Field Museum. This text argues that Americans built these institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world’s knowledge. Examining various kinds of museums, the author discovers how museums gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how they presented that knowledge - the world in miniature - to the visiting public. The study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but 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 the analysis is that museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves. Using what Steven Conn has termed an "object-based epistemology," museums of the late 19th century were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the 20th century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced.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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 19世纪下半叶，不少国家的最著名的博物馆兴建。史蒂芬·康恩在其令人印象深刻的相关研究中指出，有着纯粹知识爱好的美国人，坚信自己有能力荟集、建构和展示整个世界的知识，由此他们兴建那些最著名的博物馆。在《博物馆与美国的智识生活（1876-1926）》中，康恩告诉我们，博物馆是如何使不同的学术领域有了明确的界定，它们是如何在当时的美国智识生活中占据中心地位的。（JD）
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鸣谢
第一章 博物馆与晚期维多利亚时代
第二章 “裸眼科学”：博物馆与自然史
第三章 科学与艺术之间：博物馆与人类学的发展
第四章 费城商业博物馆：以博物馆治天下
第五章 物品与美国历史：亨利·默塞尔博物馆与亨利·福特博物馆
第六章 从南肯辛顿到卢浮宫：艺术博物馆与美术创作
第七章 1926：关于博览会、博物馆与历史
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About the Author/作者介绍： Steven Conn teaches History at The Ohio State University.
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