Light blue paper over boards, black lettering on spine. Blue and illustrated

Light blue paper over boards, black lettering on spine. Blue and illustrated dust jacket, dark blue lettering. xiii; 258 pp. 31 BW figures. "James Sheehan begins by describing the establishment of the first public galleries during the last decades of Germany's old regime. He then examines the revolutionrary upheaval that swept Germany between 1789 and 1815, arguing that the first great German museums reflected the nation's revolutionary aspirations...By the turn of the century, the museum had become a site for the political and cultural controversies caused by the rise of artistic modernism. In this context, Sheehan argues, we can see the first signs of what would become the modern style of museum architecture and modes of display."--dj flap.