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P. Lee, “The Musaeum of Alexandria and the Formation of the Muséum in Eighteenth-
Century France,” Art Bulletin 79, 3 (1997), pp. 385–412.
8. On the visitor’s relationship to the princely gallery see, for example, Duncan,
Civilizing Rituals; Bazin, Museum Age; Gordon Fyfe, “Art Museums and the State,”
University of Keele Working Papers no. 2 (1993).
9. Kenneth Hudson, A Social History of Museums: What the Visitors Thought (London:
Macmillan, 1975), p. 6.
10. A decent exploration of museums and social class can be found in Carol Duncan
and Allan Wallach, “The Universal Survey Museum,” Art History 3, 4 (1980), pp. 448–69;
Bazin, Museum Age; Daniel Sherman, “The Bourgeoisie, Cultural Appropriation and the
Art Museum,” Radical History 38, spring (1987).
11. For a discussion of this relationship, Robert Lumley, The Museum Time-Machine:
Putting Cultures on Display (London: Routledge, 1988); Gordon Fyfe and Max Ross,
“Decoding the Visitor’s Gaze: Rethinking Museum Visiting,” in Gordon Fyfe and Sharon
Macdonald (eds), Theorizing Museums (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996); Tony Bennett, The Birth
of the Museum (London: Routledge, 1995); Nick Prior, “The High Within and the Low
Without: The Social Production of Aesthetic Space in the National Gallery of Scotland,
1859–1870,” Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice, http:/
/eserver.org/clogic, 2, 2, spring 2000.
12. Geoff Eley, “Nations, Publics and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the
Nineteenth Century,” in Nicholas Dirks, Geoff Eley, and Sherry Ortner (eds), Culture/
Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1994).
13. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1968).
14. Peter Stallybrass and Allan White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
(London: Methuen, 1986), p. 87.
15. Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process, vol. 1: The History of Manners (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1978); The Civilizing Process, vol. 2: State Formation and Civilisation (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1982).
16. McLellan, Inventing the Louvre.
17. Daniel Sherman, Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in
Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).
18. Jeremy Telman, “The Creation of Public Culture in Pre-1848 Berlin,” conference
paper, The Nineteenth Century City: Global Contexts, Local Productions, Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth Century Studies, University of Santa Cruz, CA, 1996, pp. 10–11.
19. William Makepeace Thackeray, quoted in M. Moriarty, “Structures of Cultural
Production in Nineteenth-Century France,” in P. Collier and R. Lethbridge (eds), Artistic
Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France (New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1994), p. 27.
20. See, for example, A. Wittlin, The Museum: Its History and its Tasks in Education
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949).
21. Sir Henry Ellis, quoted in Richard Altick, The Shows of London (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1978), p. 248.
22. Geoffrey Swinney and David Heppel, “Public and Privileged Access: A Historical
Survey of Admission Charges and Visitor Figures for Part of the Scottish National
Collection,” Book of the Old Edinburgh Club 4 (1997), pp. 69–84.
23. Prior, “The High Within and the Low Without.”
24. Gustav Waagen, quoted in Colin Trodd, “Culture, Class, City: The National Gallery,
London and the Spaces of Education, 1822–57,” in Marcia Pointon (ed.) Art Apart, p. 42.
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