MARSTINE J JANET

New Museum Theory and Practice

An Introduction
Herausgeber: Marstine, Janet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum exhibition. Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use. Discusses theory through vivid examples and historical overviews.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781405105590
• ISBN-10: 1405105593
• Artikelnr.: 21947927

Autorenporträt

Janet Marstine is an art historian who has taught at Bowdoin College and Central Washington University. She has curated several exhibitions and is now working on new approaches to student and faculty exhibitions.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.

Preface: How to Use this Book.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction (Janet Marstine).

Part I: Defining New Museum Theory.

A Surveys and Groundwork.

1. Editor's Introduction.

The Architecture is the Museum (Micheala Giebelhausen).

Questions for Discussion.

2. Editor's Introduction.

Feminist Curatorial Strategies and Practices Since the 1970s(Katy Deepwell).

3. Editor's Introduction.

New Art, New Challenges: The Changing Face of Conservation inthe Twenty-First Century (Rachel Barker and Patricia Smithen).

Questions for Discussion.

B. Case Studies in Contemporary Practice.

4. Editor's Introduction.

How We Study History Museums: Or Cultural Studies At Monticello(Eric Gable).

Questions for Discussion.

5. Editor's Introduction.

Spectacle and Democracy: Experience Music Project as aPost-Museum (Chris Bruce).

Questions for Discussion.

6. Editor's Introduction.

Revealing and Concealing: Museums, Objects, and the Transmissionof Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia (Moira G. Simpson).

Questions for Discussion.

7. Editor's Introduction.

Restructuring South African Museums: Reality and Rhetoric WithinCape Town (Julie L. NcGee).

Part II: Looking to the Future: Theory into Practice.

8. Editor's Introduction.

The Critical Museums Visitor (Margaret Lindauer).

Questions for Discussion.

9. Editor's Introduction.

Visiting the Virtual Museum: Art and Experience Online (LianneMcTavish).

Questions for Discussion.

10. Editor's Introduction.

Reframing Studio Art Production and Critique (HelenKlebesadel).

Questions for Discussion.

11. Editor's Introduction.

The University Museum and Gallery: A Site for InstitutionalCritique and a Focus of the Curriculum (Lyndel King and JanetMarstine).

Questions for Discussion.

12. Editor's Introduction.

Museum Archives as Resources from Scholarly Research andInstitutional Identity (Lois Marie Fink).

Questions for Discussion.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This book offers a fresh approach to teaching museum studies- combining a synoptic view of prevailing museum theorieswith pragmatic end of chapter review questions." -- FloraEdouwaye S. Kaplan, New York University

"An excellent book for students of museums. In developinga creative and effective analytical toolkit for critical museumvisitors, this original volume will also prove essential foraspiring museum professionals." -- Eilean Hooper-Greenhill,University of Leicester