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The Museum’s Old / The Library’s New Subject Douglas Crimp From The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography, Richard Bolton, ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989) pp. 3-14 Note to students: This reading assumes you have an understanding of postmodern theory that you may not have. Postmodern theory reached a peak in the 1980s when this piece was written. Arising after World War 2, the destruction of Europe and its empires, the independence struggles of its colonies, postmodernism dealt with the failure of modernism. It was a deep critical rethinking of many of mode