Empty Museum

Description:

This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. The author focuses on one of the most distinctive forms of Japanese museums: the 'empty museums' - museums without collections, permanent displays, or curators.

subjects: Japan, social life and customs,  East and west,  Arts, japan,  Art,  Exhibition techniques,  Social aspects,  Art museums,  Art and society,  Techniques d'exposition,  Aspect social,  Art et société