Christopher Whitehead

Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries

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Produktbeschreibung

Interpreting Art in the Museum, Gallery and Beyond is both a study and a manual of curatorial practices of art interpretation in museums, galleries and other contexts such as the urban environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415419208
• ISBN-10: 0415419204
• Artikelnr.: 29738790

Autorenporträt

Chris Whitehead teaches Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies and runs the Art Museum and Gallery Studies postgraduate programme at the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, UK. He has substantial experience of developing interpretive resources in museums and galleries and is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of museum studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Preface Part I: Introductory mappings 1. What is art
interpretation? Why interpret art? 2. The cultural cartography of the
museum 3. Matters of interpretation: materiality, authority, chronology
Part II: Interpretive practice today 4. Interpretive frames: historical
figurative art 5. Interpretive frames: modern, contemporary and
non-figurative art 6. Case studies: institutional approaches to historical
art 7. Case studies: institutional approaches to contemporary art 8.
Interpretive futures References