Jim Boney has worked at Chesapeake Computer Consultants, Inc. for the last eight years as a consultant specializing in a wide variety of subjects: network design, network management, Unix administration, and programing in various languages (Perl, Java, Tcl/Tk, and C/C++). For the last three years, he has been working on the vLab project, which allows complete access to Cisco routers over the Internet. Jim lives in Pasadena, Maryland with his wife Peggy.
'Nick Prior's lucid and intelligent book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the contradictory dynamics characterising the relations between art museums and modernity. An essential and provoking study.' Tony Bennett, The Open University 'A timely and exciting book that makes a substantial historical as well as theoretically astute contribution to a critical field of museum and cultural studies.' Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds 'This lively, excellent and compelling study of three great national galleries of art during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a must for anyone who is interested in museum issues ... The book is a study in the historical sociology of museums which is of profound relevance to current debates about citizenship and cultural equality.' Gordon Fyfe, Keele University 'This Bourdieu-inspired cultural/sociological history considerably expands existing understanding of the formation of the modern European art market and museum