Benjamin Ives Gilman – Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art

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Looking through the Skiascope: Benjamin Gilman and the Invention of the Modern Museum Gallery

Benjamin Ives Gilman invented the skiascope to ensure that museum visitors saw art as he thought best—without distraction. Unfortunately, as far as I was able to determine, no skiascope survives. And so I built one.

Category: Research Notes

Tags: 3.1, Benjamin Ives Gilman, critical theory, Steven Lubar

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