Bettina Messias Carbonell

Museum Studies

An Anthology of Contexts
Herausgeber: Carbonell, Bettina Messias

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Produktbeschreibung

The explosive popularity of museums has made museum studies one of the most productive and exciting intellectual and pedagogical sites for historians and art historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and critical theorists. Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy, and their adoring or combative publics. An indispensable text for teaching museum studies in today's classroom, Museum Studies brings together for the first time a wide array of texts that mix contemporary analysis with classic, historical documentation. Offering encyclopedic coverage of the issues critical to the rise and role of the museum - history and development; relation to society; the ethics of classification, exhibition, and exclusion; the representation of cultures; property and ownership; the poetics of display; material culture and historical documentation; tradition, innovation, and self-reflexivity in museum practice - this is the most comprehensive and ambitious volume available on museum studies.The Anthology opens with an introductory essay that provides vital background and situates museum studies in a truly interdisciplinary context. Each section includes an opening essay that guides the reader through the selections while the volume's bibliography provides a list of resources devoted to museum studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 178mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1311g
• ISBN-13: 9780631228257
• ISBN-10: 063122825X
• Artikelnr.: 22184817

Autorenporträt

Bettina Messias Carbonell has recently joined the faculty of the Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Prior to this she taught interdisciplinary seminars in visual cultures, museum studies, American studies, aesthetics, and ethics at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She also taught in the Graduate Program in American Studies / Museum and Communities concentration at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction: Museum / Studies And The "Eccentric Space" Of An
Anthology.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Museology: A Collection Of Contexts:.
Editor's Introduction.
1. Foreword: Germain Bazin (Late Of L'École Du Louvre).
2. The Museum: Its Classical Etymology And Renaissance Genealogy: Paula
Findlen (Stanford University).
3. The Universal Survey Museum: Carol Duncan And Alan Wallach (Ramapo
College; College Of William And Mary).
4. Brain Of The Earth's Body: Museums And The Framing Of Modernity: Donald
Preziosi (University Of California, Los Angeles).
5. The Museum Refuses To Stand Still: Kenneth Hudson (Late, Independent
Scholar).
6. The Mirror And The Tomb: Africa, Museums, And Memory: Françoise Lionnet
(University Of California, Los Angeles).
7. Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective On Museums: Gaby Porter:
(Independent Scholar).
8. Museums Of 'Human Suffering' And The Struggle For Human Rights: Terence
M. Duffy (University Of Ulster).
Meditation.
9. At The Holocaust Museum: Alice Friman (Independent Scholar).
Part II: States Of "Nature" In The Museum:.
Natural History, Anthropology, Ethnology.
Editor's Introduction.
10. To The Citizens Of The United States Of America: Charles Willson Peale
(Late, Philadelphia Museum).
11. Letter Of 1863 To Mr. Thomas G. Cary: Louis Agassiz (Late Of Harvard
University).
12. The Development Of Ethnological Museums: Robert Goldwater (Late Of The
City University Of New York And New York University).
13. Museums Of Ethnology And Their Classification: Franz Boas (Late Of
Columbia University).
14. The Constitution Of Nature: Taxonomy As Politics In Jefferson, Peale,
And Bartram: Christopher Looby (University Of California, Los Angeles).
15. Magnificent Intentions: Washington, D.C., And American Anthropology In
1846: Curtis Hinsley (Northern Arizona University).
16. Ethnology: A Science On Display: Fabrice Grognet (Musée De l'Homme).
17. Ambiguous Messages And Ironic Twists: Into The Heart Of Africa And The
Other Museum: Enid Schildkrout (American Museum Of National History, New
York, And Columbia University).
18. Thinking And Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory In Exhibitionary
Practice: Mary Bouquet (University Of Utrecht).
19. Museum Matters: Gyan Prakash (Princeton University).
Meditation.
20. What White Publishers Won't Print: Zora Neale Hurston (Late,
Independent Scholar).
Part III: The Status Of Nations And The Museum:.
Editor's Introduction.
21. Selections From "On The Museum Of Art" (Introductory Addresses On The
Science And Art Department And The South Kensington Museum, Delivered
1857): J.C. Robinson (Late, Independent Scholar).
22. Museums And The Formation Of National And Cultural Identities: Annie E.
Coombes (Birkbeck College, University Of London).
23. Fracturing The Imperial Mind: Eleanor Heartney (Independent Scholar).
24. Presidential Address To The Museums Association, Maidstone Conference,
1909: Henry Balfour (Late Of Pitt-Rivers Museum And University Museum,
Oxford).
25. Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case Of The Disappearing
Holbein: Jordanna Bailkin (University Of Washington).
26. The Architectural Museum From World's Fair To Restoration Village:
Edward N. Kaufman (Independent Scholar).
27. Addresses On The Occasion Of The Opening Of The American Wing, The
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NYC : Robert W. De Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury,
Elihu Root.
28. Telling The Story Of America: Elizabeth Broun (Smithsonian American Art
Museum).
29. Some Thoughts About National Museums At The End Of The Century: Roger
G. Kennedy (Independent Scholar).
Meditation.
30. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford: James Fenton (Poet).
Part IV: Locating History In The Museum:.
Editor's Introduction.
31. Local Museums: Sir William Henry Flower (Late Of Anthropological
Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland).
32. Memory, Distortion And History In The Museum: Susan Crane (University
Of Arizona).
33. Collecting Ideas And Artifacts: Common Problems Of History Museums And
History Texts: Thomas J. Schlereth (University Of Notre Dame).
34. Melodrama, Pantomime Or Portrayal? Representing Ourselves And The
British Past Through Exhibitions In History Museums: Gaynor Kavanagh
(Falmouth College Of Arts, Cornwall, UK).
35. Reality As Illusion, The Historic Houses That Become Museums: Mónica
Risnicoff De Gorgas (Virrey Liniers Casa Museo Histórico Nacional,
Argentina).
36. Artifacts As Expressions Of Society And Culture: Subversive Genealogy
And The Value Of History: Mark Leone And Barbara Little (University Of
Maryland; National Register Of Historic Places).
37. A Sense Of Another World: History Museums And Cultural Change: James
Deetz (Late Of University Of Virgina).
38. Mining The Museum: Artists Look At Museums, Museums Look At Themselves:
Lisa G. Corrin (Serpentine.
Gallery, London).
Meditation.
39. Other Icons, The Museums: Le Corbusier (Late, Independent Scholar).
Part V: Arts, Crafts, Audiences:.
Editor's Introduction.
40. The Museum As An Art Patron: John Cotton Dana (Late Of The Newark
Museum).
41. Aims And Principles Of The Construction And Management Of Museums Of
Fine Art: Benjamin Ives Gilman (Late.
Of The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, And American Association Of Museums).
42. Museum: Georges Bataille (Late Of The Collège De Sociologie).
43. Conclusion To The Love Of Art: Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Darbel With D.
Schnapper (Late Of The Collège De France, Paris).
44. Art And The Future's Past: Philip Fisher (Harvard University).
45. Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy In West Africa: Malcolm
Mcleod (University Of Glasgow).
46. Cultural Entrepreneurship In Nineteenth-Century Boston, Part II: The
Classification And Framing Of American Art: Paul Dimaggio (Princeton
University).
47. Women At The Whitney, 1910-30: Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics: Janet
Wolff (Columbia University).
48. Zero Gravity: Maurice Berger (Independent Scholar).
49. Introduction To The Museum As Muse, Artists Reflect: Kynaston Mcshine
(Museum Of Modern Art, New York).
50. Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics And Experience Of The Mexican Fine
Arts Center Museum: Karen Mary Davalos (Loyola Marymount University).
51. Resonance And Wonder: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University).
52. Changing Values In The Art Museum: Rethinking Communication And
Learning: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (University Of Leicester).
Meditation.
53. Secrets Of Encounter: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York
University).
Selected Bibliography.
Biographical Notes On Contributors.
Index

Rezensionen

"Combining important historical texts, classic critical analyses,and current commentary on the museum, this anthology is a uniqueresource for Museum Studies. It is especially useful in assemblingsophisticated discussions of many kinds of institutions, includingmuseums of art, history, anthropology, and natural history."Bruce Altshuler, New York University

"The rich diversity of contexts and commentaries in thiscollection reveals the fascination of the museum not only forcurators and museologists, but also for anthropologists,architects, politicians, historians, critics, and poets. Thebreadth of the survey is a timely reminder that the condition ofour museums is - and has always been - a barometer ofsocial attitudes and change." Helen Rees Leahy, University ofManchester