Table of Contents

1. Museums as political centers; 2. Dismantling art institutions: the 1968 explosion of social awareness; 3. Christian Boltanski's personal memorabilia: remaking museums in the wake of 1968; 4. Annette Messager's images of the everyday: the feminist recasting of '68; 5. Institutionalizing '68: the Pompidou center; 6. America and Europe post-Pompidou: sustaining the new political mission of the museum.

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This book shows how the protests in France in 1968 affected the museum establishment.

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'... The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art is a fluently written, thoroughly researched and engaging book that is laudatory in its demand for art to be understood as political and for the museum to engage with its wider public.' The Art Book '... The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The politics of Artistic display in France after 1968 is a fluently written, thoroughly researched and engaging book that is laudatory in its demand for art to be understood as political and for the museum to engage with its wider public.' The Art Book