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"There is scant sense in this book that history is also what we are made of, or that it may have emacipatory as well as oppressive ends. Mr. Danto speaks revealingly of the 'burden' of history, a rather typically American way of seeing. He wants us to see the the art museum as a potpourri of delectable options that we can stray among at will. There is indeed a name for such institutions in the West, but until I read this book I had thought it was 'supermarket.'Danto, Arthur C. is the author of 'After the End of Art Contemporary Art and the Pale of History', published 1998 under ISBN 9780691002996 and ISBN 0691002991.
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