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New Museum Theory and Practice » (1st Edition)
Authors: Janet Marstine (Editor), Janet Marstine
ISBN-13: 9781405105590, ISBN-10: 1405105593
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Janet Marstine
Janet Marstine is an art historian who has taught at Bowdoin College and Central Washington University. She has curated several exhibitions and is now working on new approaches to student and faculty exhibitions.
Book Synopsis
New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum exhibition.
- Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use.
- Discusses theory through vivid examples and historical overviews.
- Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice.
- Covers a range of museums around the world: from art to history, anthropology to music, as well as historic houses, cultural centres, virtual sites, and commercial displays that use the conventions of the museum.
- Authors come from the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia, and from a variety of fields that inform cultural studies.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Defining new museum theory | 37 |
| 1 | The architecture is the museum | 41 |
| 2 | Feminist curatorial strategies and practices since the 1970s | 65 |
| 3 | New art, new challenges : the changing face of conservation in the twenty-first century | 86 |
| 4 | How we study history museums : or cultural studies at Monticello | 109 |
| 5 | Spectacle and democracy : experience music project as a post-museum | 130 |
| 6 | Revealing and concealing : museums, objects, and the transmission of knowledge in aboriginal Australia | 153 |
| 7 | Restructuring South African museums : reality and rhetoric within Cape Town | 179 |
| Pt. II | Looking to the future : theory into practice | 201 |
| 8 | The critical museum visitor | 203 |
| 9 | Visiting the virtual museum : art and experience online | 226 |
| 10 | Reframing studio art production and critique | 248 |
| 11 | The university museum and gallery : a site for institutional critique and a focus of the curriculum | 267 |
| 12 | Museum archives as resources for scholarly research and institutional identity | 293 |
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