What is it about?
This chapter explores the role of art museums as institutions that helped create new dedicated citizens out of growing urban populations at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Why is it important?
The chapter questions whether Tony Bennett’s ‘exhibitionary complex’ can be applied beyond the great metropolis such as Paris or London and uses Cracow as an example.
Perspectives
Local elite agendas appear as far more decisive in the kind of negotiated governance of museums on the local level that was typical of Austria-Hungary than those originating in Vienna or with the broader urban public.
Dr Markian Prokopovych
Durham University
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This page is a summary of: Governing Taste, March 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003028390-5.
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