Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived, not only the practices of artists--Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Serra, Sherrie Levine, and Robert Mapplethorpe--but those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums such as the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.The essays:- Photographs at the End of Modernism.- On the Museum's Ruins.- The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject.- The End of Painting.- The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism.- Appropriating Appropriation.- Redefining Site Specificity.- This is Not a Museum of Art.- The Art of Exhibition.- The Postmodern Museum.

    Published with the cooperation of the Presley estate, and including previously unpublished items, Graceland is sure to stand as the definitive account of this unique museum. 350 photos., 175 in color.

    The palace of the French kings had been transformed into a museum that today stretches over an enormous architectural ensemble right in the heart of Paris.The royal collections first assembled by Francis I in the sixteenth century were later transferred to the Louvre palace, and this prestigious core was further enriched with artistic treasures during the Revolutionary period. The collections have been growing ever since, and are today divided into seven departments. Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, and Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities illustrate the art and culture of the ancient Near and Middle East and the Mediterranean countries. The other four so-called "modern" departments—painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and drawing—span Western art from the height of the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century.With superb reproductions of nearly 400 of the museum's most renowned masterpieces, this glorious volume provides a grand tour of the Louvre's unparalleled collection, and highlights the extraordinary range of artistic traditions that have gradually found their place in this museum.

    

    This volume is devoted to the museum's Indian paintings created between 1000 and 1700 AD. The works are divided into six sections: Buddhist manuscript illumination from eastern India, Jain and Hindu painting, and Islamic, Mughal, and Deccani painting and calligraphy. Pratapaditya Pal is the former senior curator of Indian and Southeast Asian art at LACMA and is the author or coauthor of over fifty books, monographs, and exhibition catalogues. - HARDCOVER- 384 pages, 12 x 9 x 1-1/8 inches- 315 illustrations, 75 in full color- 1993.