{"product_id":"discipline-and-varnish-moshe-barasch-9780820438061","title":"Discipline and Varnish: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, and Counter-Memory in the Museum","description":"The Museum of Modern Art in New York combines the rhetoric of modernist domestic architecture, formalist art theory, and modernist museology in its exhibition spaces. \u003ci\u003eDiscipline and Varnish\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how this combination of rhetorical devices has produced not only a persuasive understanding of the history of modernist art, but also a set of  subjectivity effects  that uses the formalist notion of  autonomy  as a powerful model for subjectivity. However, MOMA's rhetoric of display eventually contradicts its three-dimensional discourse on art and aesthetics, undermining the museum's model for subjectivity as well. This study ends with a look at possible alternative relations between museology and subjectivity through analyses of the Wexner Center for the Arts and the plans for the National Museum of the American Indian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moshe Barasch,Thomas Patin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820438065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820438061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Moshe Barasch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241123557631,"sku":"9780820438061","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc2b38ae-a304-43f4-842a-4a3103c90018.jpg?v=1772652854","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/discipline-and-varnish-moshe-barasch-9780820438061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}