Tom Edensor
Tourists at the Taj: Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site
Routledge,
1997.
223 pp.; 9 b/w ills.
Cloth
$25.99
(0415167132)
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With recent works such as Lucy Lippard’s On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place (New York: The New Press, 1999), the intersection between the academic discipline of art history and the study of tourism has received increased attention from art historians and art critics. One of the roles of art history within the cultural practice of tourism is, for example, to establish and authenticate a canon of monuments that serves as a resource for...