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Michel Foucault’s legacy in shaping understanding of the museum and its ideological operations is well established in the field of museum studies. Tony Bennett s adaptation of the disciplinary complex in his exhibitionary complex essay of 1988 marshalled Foucauldian theory into the field s mainstream, and contributed to the subsequent methodological shift known as the new museology or critical museum studies. Less recognised are Foucault s contributions to theorisations of the museum by modernist art history. Focusing on a passage from his essay Fantasia of the Library and its reception by Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, and others, this article reflects on Foucault s outsized impact on recent modernist art history. It concludes that Foucault’s commentary stimulated art history to engage with the museum, but at the same time, constrained the field s conception of modernism’s geographies, protagonists, and institutional formations. |
