Christopher Whitehead

Analysing Museum Display

Theory and Method

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Produktbeschreibung

Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks & methods, charting major contributions to the field & exploring their potentials and limitations

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781138545908
• ISBN-10: 1138545902
• Artikelnr.: 70601386

Autorenporträt

Christopher Whitehead is Professor of Museology at Newcastle University, UK, where he is the current Dean of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Humanities at the Australian National University. He teaches museum and heritage studies, and has trained generations of students in curatorship and exhibition development. He has published extensively on museum history, theory, and practice, and on the politics and experience of heritage and memory. He is series editor of Routledge Critical Heritages of Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Walkthrough I: First Australians
Canberra
2019; 1. Introduction: what is display?; Walkthrough II: Atrocity and Trauma
Oslo
2015; Walkthrough III: A World of Shape and Colour
Corfu Town
2021; 2. Why Analyze Display?; Walkthrough IV: In the Shadow of Colonialism
Heldenplatz
Vienna
2023; 3. Script
ritual
performance; Walkthrough V: Your Face
Bratislava
2023; 4. Text
narrative
exposure; Walkthrough VI: Atmospheres of Deep Time
London
2022; 5. Affect
assemblage
atmosphere; Walkthrough VII: The Web of Life
Lyon
France
2022; Walkthrough VIII: Momentous Encounters
Verona
2023; 6. Map
space
positioning; Walkthrough IX: A Long-gone Display
London
1878; 7. Orientations for Analytical Practice; 8. References; Index.