THE CULTURE OF THE ART GALLERY
Molly Nesbit
Reading List
Douglas Crimp, with photographs by Louise Lawler, On the Museum's Ruins
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993).
Francis Haskell, Rediscoveries in Art: some aspects of taste, fashion, and
collecting in England and France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976).
Carol Duncan, Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London: Routledge,
1995).
Harrison C. White and Cynthia A. White, Canvases and Careers; Institutional
Change in the French Painting World (New York: Wiley, 1965).
Robert Jensen, Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1994).
Ambroise Vollard, Recollections of as Picture Dealer, trans. Violet M.
MacDonald (New York: Dover, 1936).
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, with Francis Crémieux, My Galleries and Painters,
trans. Helen Weaver (New York: Viking, 1971).
Malcolm Gee, Dealers, Critics and Collectors of Modern Painting: Aspects of
the Parisian Art Market between 1913 and 1930 (New York: Garland, 1981).
Michael Fitzgerald, Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market
for Twentieth-Century Art (New York: Farrar, Straus & GIroux, 1995).
Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry. A Biography (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich,
1940).
Russell Lynes, Good Old Modern. An Intimate Portrait of the Museum of Modern
Art (New York: Atheneum, 1973).
Peggy Guggenheim, Out of this Century: Confessions of an Art Addict, foreword
by Gore Vidal, introduction by Alfred Barr, Jr. (New York: Universe Books, l979).
Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism,
Freedom, and the Cold War, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1983).
André Malraux, "Museum Without Walls", from his book The Voices of Silence,
trans. Stuart Gilbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, l978), pp. 13-128.
Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Darbel, with Dominique Schnapper, The Love of Art:
European Art Museums and their Public, translated by Caroline Beattie and
Nick Merriman (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1990).
Raymonde Moulin, The French Art Market: a Sociological View, translated
by Arthur Goldhammer (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1987).
Brian O'Doherty, Inside the White Cube. The Ideology of the Gallery Space
(Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1986).
Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business, edited by Brian Wallis (Cambridge: MIT
Press, 1986).
Mary Anne Staniszewski, The Power of Display: a History of Exhibition Installations
at the Museum of Modern Art (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998).
Visual Display: Culture beyond Appearances, edited by Lynne Cooke and Peter
Wollen, Dia Center for the Arts: Discussions in Contemporary Culture, no. 10 (Seattle:
Bay Press, 1995).
Brian Wallis, Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America (New York:
New York University Press, 1999).