Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago, eds.
Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum
Burlington, Vt.:
Ashgate,
2004.
804 pp.; 68 b/w ills.
Paper
$70.00
(0754608352)
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Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum effectively presents the dominant present-day academic ways of understanding museums and contains a range of material not duplicated in any other volume. And considering its length, the book is reasonable in price. The editors’ introductions are lucid, and the essays, which consider a range of topics, are strong. I will begin this review by briefly summarizing the subjects of the essays in the various parts of the...