Lianne Mctavish

Defining the Modern Museum

A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shedding light on many topics of current interest, especially the commodification and globalization of museums, this study makes a lively contribution to museum studies and cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781442644434
• ISBN-10: 1442644435
• Artikelnr.: 34761772

Autorenporträt

Lianne McTavish is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction The Impossible Museum
Chapter One Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace
Chapter Two Learning to See: Vision, Visuality and Material Culture,
1862-1929
Chapter Three Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the
Museum, 1880-1940
Chapter Four Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940
Chapter Five Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker
during the 1930s and 1940s
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index