| Description |
xxxiii, 640 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Alternative Taxonomy -- Introduction: Museum/Studies and the "Eccentric Space" of an Anthology / Bettina Messias Carbonell -- 1. From The Museum Age: Foreword / Germain Bazin -- 2. The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy / Paula Findlen -- 3. The Universal Survey Museum / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach -- 4. Brain of the Earth's Body: Museums and the Framing of Modernity / Donald Preziosi -- 5. The Museum Refuses to Stand Still / Kenneth Hudson -- 6. The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory / Francoise Lionnet -- 7. Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums / Gaby Porter -- 8. Museums of "Human Suffering" and the Struggle for Human Rights / Terence M. Duffy -- 9. At The Holocaust Museum / Alice Friman -- 10. To the Citizens of the United States of America / Charles Willson Peale -- 11. Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary / Louis Agassiz -- 12. The Development of Ethnological Museums / Robert Goldwater -- 13. Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification / Franz Boas -- 14. The Constitution of Nature: Taxonomy as Politics in Jefferson, Peale, and Bartram / Christopher Looby -- 15. "Magnificent Intentions": Washington, D.C., and American Anthropology in 1846 / Curtis M. Hinsley Jr. -- 16. Ethnology: A Science on Display / Fabrice Grognet -- 17. Ambiguous Messages and Ironic Twists: Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum / Enid Schildkrout -- 18. Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice / Mary Bouquet -- 19. Museum Matters / Gyan Prakash -- 20. What White Publishers Won't Print / Zora Neale Hurston -- 21. From On the Museum of Art: An Address / J. C. Robinson -- 22. Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities / Annie E. Coombes -- 23. Fracturing the Imperial Mind / Eleanor Heartney -- 24. Presidential Address to the Museums Association, Maidstone Meeting, 1909 / Henry Balfour -- 25. Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein / Jordanna Bailkin -- 26. The Architectural Museum from World's Fair to Restoration Village / Edward N. Kaufman -- 27. Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Robert W. de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury and Elihu Root -- 28. Telling the Story of America / Elizabeth Broun -- 29. Some Thoughts about National Museums at the End of the Century / Roger G. Kennedy -- 30. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford / James Fenton -- 31. Local Museums / William Henry Flower -- 32. Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum / Susan A. Crane -- 33. Collecting Ideas and Artifacts: Common Problems of History Museums and History Texts / Thomas J. Schlereth -- 34. Melodrama, Pantomime or Portrayal? Representing Ourselves and the British Past through Exhibitions in History Museums / Gaynor Kavanagh -- 35. Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums / Monica Risnicoff de Gorgas -- 36. Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History / Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little -- 37. A Sense of Another World: History Museums and Cultural Change / James Deetz -- 38. Mining the Museum: Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves / Lisa G. Corrin -- 39. Other Icons: The Museums / Le Corbusier -- 40. The Museum as an Art Patron / John Cotton Dana -- 41. Aims and Principles of the Construction and Management of Museums of Fine Art / Benjamin Ives Gilman -- 42. Museum / Georges Bataille -- 43. Conclusion to The Love of Art / Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Darbel and Dominique Schnapper -- 44. Art and the Future's Past / Philip Fisher -- 45. Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- 46. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art / Paul DiMaggio -- 47. Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics / Janet Wolff -- 48. Zero Gravity / Maurice Berger -- 49. From The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect: Introduction / Kynaston McShine -- 50. Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics and Experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum / Karen Mary Davalos -- 51. Resonance and Wonder / Stephen Greenblatt -- 52. Changing Values in the Art Museum: Rethinking Communication and Learning / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- 53. Secrets of Encounter / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
| Summary |
Among the developments in twenty-first-century museum scholarship featured in this new edition are issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies, and interactive technologies. A new section on relationships, interations, and responsibilities focuses on the intersection of memory, history, ethics, and affect within the museum and beyond its walls |
| Analysis |
Museums - Educational aspects |
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Museums - Philosophy |
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Museums - Social aspects |
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Museums - Historiography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Museums.
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Cultural property -- Repatriation.
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Indigenous peoples -- Museums.
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Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Museums -- Educational aspects.
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Museums -- Environmental aspects.
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Museums -- Philosophy.
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Museums -- Social aspects.
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Museums -- Historiography.
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| Author |
Carbonell, Bettina Messias.
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| LC no. |
2003014048 |
| ISBN |
0631228306 paperback alkaline paper |
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063122825X hardback alkaline paper |
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