Museum culture : histories, discourses, spectacles / Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff, editors.
Contributor(s): Sherman, Daniel J [editor.]
| Rogoff, Irit [editor.].
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BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 1994Description: xx, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415092744 (paperback); 0415092736; 9780415092746.Subject(s): Art -- Exhibition techniques | Art museums -- Educational aspects | Art museums -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 708
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Museums display much more than artifacts; Museum Culture makes us on a tour through the complex of ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting today. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives from history, art history, critical theory and sociology, the contributors to this new collection argue that museums have become a central institution and metaphor in contemporary society.
Discussing exhibition histories and practice in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States, the authors explore the ways in which museums assign meaning to art through various kinds of exhibitions and display strategies, examining the political implications of these strategies and the forms of knowledge they invoke and construct. The collection also discusses alternative exhibition forms, the involvement of some museums with the more spectacular practices of mass media culture, and looks at how museums construct their public.
Simultaneously published by University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MTU Cork Module ARTS9005 - Recommended reading.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. vii)
- Introduction Frameworks for Critical Analysis (p. ix)
- Part I Histories (p. 1)
- 1 The German Art Museum and the History of the Nation (p. 3)
- 2 The Whitechapel Picture Exhibitions and the Politics of Seeing (p. 22)
- 3 An Elite Experience for Everyone: Art Museums, the Public, and Cultural Literacy (p. 49)
- 4 Identity as Self-Discovery: The Ecomuseum in France (p. 66)
- 5 With Open Doors: Museums and Historical Narratives in Israel's Public Space (p. 85)
- Notes (p. 109)
- Part II Discourses (p. 111)
- 6 The Museum as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France (p. 113)
- 7 Quatremère/Benjamin/Marx: Art Museums, Aura, and Commodity Fetishism (p. 123)
- 8 The Struggle against the Museum; Or, the Display of Art in Totalitarian Space (p. 144)
- 9 Degenerate Art and Documenta I: Modernism Ostracized and Disarmed (p. 163)
- Notes (p. 193)
- Part III Spectacles (p. 195)
- 10 The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum (p. 197)
- 11 From Ruins to Debris: The Feminization of Fascism in German-History Museums (p. 223)
- 12 A New Center: The National Museum of Women in the Arts (p. 250)
- 13 Selling Nations: International Exhibitions and Cultural Diplomacy (p. 265)
- Index (p. 287)