Museum Studies

An Anthology of Contexts
Herausgegeben von Carbonell, Bettina Messias

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Produktbeschreibung

Retaining the multidisciplinary focus of the critically acclaimed first edition, the new edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, and philosophy. Striking a careful balance between contemporary analysis and historical documentation, the new edition features primary and secondary texts spanning the course of some 200 years of museum history that reveal a wealth of insights into culture and society.

Among the developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship featured in this new edition are issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies, and interactive technologies. A new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities focuses on the intersection of memory, history, ethics, and affect within the museum and beyond its walls. With its expansive nature and multidisciplinary approach, Museum Studies solidifies its reputation as the primary resource for this important academic discipline.

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Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy.

Unique in its deep range of historical sources and by its inclusion of primary texts by museum makers
Places current praxis and theory in its broader and deeper historical context with the collection of primary and secondary sources spanning more than 200 years
Features the latest developments in museum scholarship concerning issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies and interactive technologies
Includes a new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities
Offers an updated bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject
New entries by Victoria E. M. Cain, Neil G.W. Curtis, Catherine Ingraham, Gwyneira Isaac, Robert R. Janes, Sean Kingston, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sharon J. Macdonald, Saloni Mathur, Gerald McMaster, Sidney Moko Mead, Donald Preziosi, Karen A. Rader, Richard Sandell, Roger I. Simon, Crain Soudien, Paul Tapsell, Stephen E. Weil, Paul Williams, and Andrea Witcomb

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1143g
• ISBN-13: 9781405173810
• ISBN-10: 1405173815
• Artikelnr.: 34179830

Autorenporträt

Bettina Messias Carbonell is Associate Professor of English and Program Coordinator for the interdisciplinary Humanities and Justice major at John Jay College, City University of New York. Her publications and current research focus on ethics, aesthetics, and the representation of history in literary texts and in museums.

Inhaltsangabe

Alternative Taxonomy xi Notes on Contributors xvi Acknowledgments xxiv
Introduction to the Second Edition: Museum/Studies and the "Eccentric
Space" of an Anthology - Revisited 1 Bettina M. Carbonell Part I Museology:
A Collection of Contexts 15 Introduction 15 1 From The Museum Age: Foreword
19 Germain Bazin 2 The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance
Genealogy 23 Paula Findlen 3 The Universal Survey Museum 46 Carol Duncan
and Alan Wallach 4 Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on
Museums 62 Gaby Porter 5 Universal Museums, Museum Objects and
Repatriation: The Tangled Stories of Things 73 Neil G.W. Curtis 6
Narrativity and the Museological Myths of Nationality 82 Donald Preziosi 7
Museums, Civic Life, and the Educative Force of Remembrance 92 Roger I.
Simon 8 The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and
Responsibility 97 Paul Williams 9 At The Holocaust Museum 116 Alice Friman
Part II States of "Nature" in the Museum: Natural History, Anthropology,
Ethnology 117 Introduction 117 10 To the Citizens of the United States of
America 123 Charles Willson Peale 11 Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary
125 Louis Agassiz 12 Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification 126
Franz Boas 13 "Magnificent Intentions": Washington, D.C., and American
Anthropology in 1846 129 Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr. 14 From Natural History to
Science: Display and the Transformation of American Museums of Science and
Nature 142 Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain 15 The Development of
Ethnological Museums 158 Robert Goldwater 16 Ethnology: A Science on
Display 163 Fabrice Grognet 17 Ambiguous Messages and Ironic Twists: Into
the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum 168 Enid Schildkrout 18 Thinking
and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice 177
Mary Bouquet 19 The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory 189
Françoise Lionnet 20 From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum 199
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 21 The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford 206 James
Fenton Part III The Status of Nations and the Museum 209 Introduction 209
22 From On the Museum of Art: An Address 213 J. C. Robinson 23 Presidential
Address to the Museums Association, Maidstone Meeting, 1909 218 Henry
Balfour 24 Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (November 10, 1924) 225 Robert W.
de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury, and Elihu Root 25 The Architectural Museum
from World's Fair to Restoration Village 230 Edward N. Kaufman 26
Melodrama, Pantomime or Portrayal?: Representing Ourselves and the British
Past through Exhibitions in History Museums 244 Gaynor Kavanagh 27
Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and
the Value of History 250 Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little 28 Museums and
the Formation of National and Cultural Identities 260 Annie E. Coombes 29
Museums, National, Postnational and Transcultural Identities 273 Sharon J.
Macdonald 30 Architecture and the Scene of Evidence 287 Catherine Ingraham
31 Some Thoughts about National Museums at the End of the Century 294 Roger
G. Kennedy Part IV Histories and Identities in the Museum 299 Introduction
299 32 Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum 303 Susan A. Crane 33
Museum Matters 317 Gyan Prakash 34 Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses
that Become Museums 324 Mónica Risnicoff de Gorgas 35 Mining the Museum:
Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves 329 Lisa G. Corrin 36
The Afterlife of Lynching: Exhibitions and the Re-composition of Human
Suffering 347 Bettina Messias Carbonell 37 Exhibiting Mestizaje: The
Poetics and Experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum 357 Karen
Mary Davalos 38 Indigenous Models of Museums in Oceania 373 Sidney Moko
Mead 39 Museums and the Native Voice 377 Gerald McMaster 40 Dangerous
Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past 383
Sean Kingston 41 Emerging Discourses around Identity in New South African
Museum Exhibitions 397 Crain Soudien Part V Art, Artifacts, and the
Deployment of Objects in the Museum 407 Introduction 407 42 Aims and
Principles of the Construction and Management of Museums of Fine Art 413
Benjamin Ives Gilman 43 The Museum as an Art Patron 421 John Cotton Dana 44
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston, Part II: The
Classification and Framing of American Art 425 Paul DiMaggio 45 Picturing
Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein 442
Jordanna Bailkin 46 Conclusion to The Love of Art 453 Pierre Bourdieu and
Alain Darbel, with Dominique Schnapper 47 Art and the Future's Past 457
Philip Fisher 48 Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West
Africa 473 Malcolm McLeod 49 Women at the Whitney, 1910-30:
Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics 478 Janet Wolff 50 From The Museum as Muse:
Artists Reflect: Introduction 491 Kynaston McShine 51 Zero Gravity 503
Maurice Berger 52 Museums and Globalization 510 Saloni Mathur 53 Changing
Values in the Art Museum: Rethinking Communication and Learning 517 Eilean
Hooper-Greenhill 54 Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic
Media at the National Museum of the American Indian 533 Gwyneira Isaac Part
VI In and Beyond the Museum: Relationships, Interactions, Responsibilities
547 Introduction 547 55 Museums, Corporatism and the Civil Society 549
Robert R. Janes 56 Museums as Agents of Social Inclusion 562 Richard
Sandell 57 Partnership in Museums: A Tribal Maori Response to Repatriation
575 Paul Tapsell 58 Interactivity in Museums: The Politics of Narrative
Style 580 Andrea Witcomb 59 Speaking about Museums: A Meditation on
Language 590 Stephen E. Weil Selected Bibliography 599 Source
Acknowledgments 615 Index 620