The Failure of the White Cube : From the 19th Century Moralist Art Museum to the 21st Century Civic Art Museum (Hardcover)

00. Introduction: The persisting ‘formalist unconscious’ and the white cube 01. The private museum: 6 types of collectors that paved the way for today’s public art museum, 685 BC-2020s 02. The moralist art museum: the Universal Survey Museum, 1793-1880s 03. The aesthetic art museum: the period room and other experimental displays, 1880s-1940s 04. The formalist art museum: the modern period room or, the white cube and its 6 phases, 1900- 2020s 05. The civic art museum: participation and contextual displays for the 21st century 06. Bad museology or, how museums are killing art works with bad placement and anachronism 07. An 8-step methodology for articulating exhibitions beyond the failed white cube 08. Epilogue: The Power of Display.