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INDEX

Abercrombie, P., 102, 108 art, 12–18, 27–30, 35–6, 48, 51, 81–2,
abstract expressionism, 35, 63, 101 87–90, 97, 101–2, 109–11, 131, 134,
Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris, 27, 126 153
Adorno, T., 79–80, 93 African, 148
aesthetics, 15–8, 28–30, 91, 97, 107, avant-garde, 3, 37–44, 60–9, 76, 83, 87,
109–13, 143, 153 97
commercial, 34–5, 69 as cultural capital, 110–11
commodity, 29, 35–6, 123 and everyday life, 42, 61, 64
and gender, 121–4 and gender/sexuality, 121–4
and the ’museum effect’, 30 history, 1, 15, 28, 101, 111, 121–3
and sexuality, 121, 124–7 market, 29, 35–6, 38–9, 45
see also taste; attention; experience; museums and galleries, 1, 15–16, 27–8,
value 60–9, 87, 101–2, 104, 109–11, 121,
affect, 2, 3, 31, 91, 107–8 149–50
Agassiz, L., 46 and ritual, 17, 97, 109, 111
Akeley, C., 40, 59, 52, 59 and science, 88–9,
American Museum, see Barnum and solipsism, 112–13
American Museum of Natural History, see also aura; classicism
New York (AMNH), 33, 46–51, 85, Art of This Century gallery, New York,
112, 145–6 62–3
Ames, M., 58, 151 artefacts, see objects
animism, 7, 97 artificial life, 145–6
anthropometry, 133 assembly line, 96, 105
anthropomorphism, 7–10, 68, 97 attention, 2, 4, 11, 37, 42, 44, 53–60, 69,
Appadurai, A., 9 88, 105, 113, 120, 123
Appelbaum, R., 112 as aesthetic contemplation, 16–17 62,
arcades, see shopping arcades and malls 65, 68, 100, 104, 142
architecture, 69, 82, 153 management of, 3, 13–14, 34, 53, 71
archives, 73–4, 129–33, 154 and objecthood, 7, 11, 28, 143
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, and value, 109
60 see also gawking; wonder