Museums And Centers Of Contemporary Art In Central Europe After 1989

Author : Katarzyna Jagodzińska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351372091

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Museums and Centers of Contemporary Art in Central Europe after 1989 by Katarzyna Jagodzińska Pdf

Museums and Centers of Contemporary Art in Central Europe is a comprehensive study of the ecosystem of art museums and centers in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Focusing on institutions founded after 1989, the book analyses a thirty-year boom in art exhibition space in these regions, as well as a range of socio-political influences and curatorial debates that had a significant impact upon their development. Tracing the inspiration for the increase in art institutions and the models upon which these new spaces were based, Jagodzińska offers a unique insight into the history of museums in Central Europe. Providing analysis of a range of issues, including private and public patronage, architecture, and changing visions of national museums of art, the book situates these newly-founded institutions within their historical, political and museological contexts. Considering whether - and in what ways - they can be said to have a shared regional identity that is distinct from institutions elsewhere, this valuable contribution paints a picture of the region in its entirety from the perspective of new institutions of art. Offering the first comprehensive study on the topic, Museums and Centers of Contemporary Art in Central Europe should be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of museums, art, history and architecture.

Author : Camilla Rossi-Linnemann,Giulia de Martini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429958366

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Art in Science Museums by Camilla Rossi-Linnemann,Giulia de Martini Pdf

Art in Science Museums brings together perspectives from different practitioners to reflect on the status and meaning of art programmes in science centres and museums around the world. Presenting a balanced mix of theoretical perspectives, practitioners’ reflections, and case-studies, this volume gives voice to a wide range of professionals, from traditional science centres and museums, and from institutions born with the very aim of merging art and science practices. Considering the role of art in the field of science engagement, the book questions whether the arts might help curators to convey complex messages, foster a more open and personal approach to scientific issues, become tools of inclusion, and allow for the production of totally new cultural products. The book also includes a rich collection of projects from all over the world, synthetically presenting cases that reveal very different approaches to the inclusion of art in science programmes. Art in Science Museums should be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum studies, cultural heritage management, material culture, science communication and contemporary art. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals looking to promote more reflective social science engagement in their institutions.

Author : Oksana Sarkisova,Péter Apor
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211430

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Past for the Eyes by Oksana Sarkisova,Péter Apor Pdf

How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.

Author : Katy Bunning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000222890

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Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum by Katy Bunning Pdf

Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum traces the evolution of pervasive racial ideas, and ‘post-race’ allusions, over more than a century of museum thinking and practice. Drawing on the illuminating history of the Smithsonian Institution, this book offers an account of how museums have addressed and renegotiated wider calls for inclusion, ‘self-definition’, and racial justice, in ways that continually re-centre and legitimise the White frame. Charting the emergence of ‘post-race’ ideas in museums, Bunning demonstrates how and why ‘culturally specific’ approaches have been met with suspicion and derision by powerful museum stakeholders against the backdrop of a changing United States of America, just as they have offered crucial vehicles for sectoral change. This study of the evolution of racial ideas in response to Black empowerment highlights deeply entrenched forms of White supremacy that remain operative within the international museum sector today, and serves to reinforce the urgent calls for the active disruption of racist ideas and the redesign of institutions. Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum will appeal to those working in the international fields of museum and heritage studies, cultural studies, and American studies, and all who are interested in the production of racial ideas and White supremacy in the museum.

Author : Margaret J.-M. Sönmez,Maia Wellington Gahtan,Nadia Cannata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429958427

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Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage by Margaret J.-M. Sönmez,Maia Wellington Gahtan,Nadia Cannata Pdf

Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history, mission, and modes of display, contributors demonstrate the important role intangible heritage can and should play in the museum. Arguing that languages are among our most precious forms of cultural heritage, the book also demonstrates that they are at risk of neglect, and of endangerment from globalisation and linguistic imperialism. Including case studies from across Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia, this book documents the vital work being done by museums to help preserve languages and make them objects of broad public interest. Divided into three sections, contributions to the book focus on one of three types of museums: museums of individual languages, museums of language groups – both geographic and structural – and museums of writing. The volume presents practical information alongside theoretical discussions and state-of-the-art commentaries concerning the representation of languages and their cultural nature. Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage is the first volume to address the subject of language museums and, as such, should be of interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of museum and cultural heritage studies, applied linguistics, anthropology, tourism, and public education.

Author : Brenda Cowan,Ross Laird,Jason McKeown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429885754

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Museum Objects, Health and Healing by Brenda Cowan,Ross Laird,Jason McKeown Pdf

Museum Objects, Health and Healing provides an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between objects, health and healing. Shedding light on the primacy of the human need for relationships with objects, the book explores what kind of implications these relationships might have on the exhibition experience. Merging museum and object studies, as well as psychotherapy and the psychology of well-being, the authors present a new theory entitled Psychotherapeutic Object Dynamics, which provides a cross- disciplinary study of the relationship between objects, health and well-being. Drawing on primary research in museums, psychotherapeutic settings and professional practice throughout the US, Canada, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the UK, the book provides an overview of the theory’s origins, the breadth of its practical applications on a global level, and a framework for further understanding the potency of objects in exhibitions and daily life. Museum Objects, Health and Healing will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in museum studies, material culture, mental health, psychotherapy, art therapies and anthropology. It should also be valuable reading for a wide range of practitioners, including curators, exhibition designers, psychologists, and psychotherapists.

Author : Peter Bjerregaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317239031

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Exhibitions as Research by Peter Bjerregaard Pdf

Exhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as knowledge-in-the-making rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights. Analysing the theoretical underpinnings and practical challenges of such an approach, the book questions whether it is possible to exhibit knowledge that is still in the making, whilst also considering which concepts of "knowledge" apply to such a format. The book also considers what the role of audience might be if research is extended into the exhibition itself. Providing concrete case studies of projects where museum professionals have approached exhibition making as a knowledge-generating process, the book considers tools of application and the challenges that might emerge from pursuing such an approach. Theoretically, the volume analyses the emergence of exhibitions as research as part of recent developments within materiality theories, object-oriented ontology and participatory approaches to exhibition-making. Exhibitions as Research will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museology, material culture, anthropology and archaeology. It will also appeal to museum professionals with an interest in current trends in exhibition-making.

Author : François Mairesse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000812480

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Dictionary of Museology by François Mairesse Pdf

The internationally focused Dictionary of Museology reflects the diversity of cultural and disciplinary approaches to theory and practice in the museum field today. The museum world is changing rapidly, and the characteristics and social roles of the world’s approximately 100,000 existing museums are constantly evolving. In addition to their traditional functions of preservation, research and communication, museums are increasingly addressing issues related to social inclusion, human rights, sustainable development and finances, all of which are explored in this dictionary. Drawing on the support of an international editorial committee, including influential figures from the US, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Spain, Germany, France and the UK, this collaborative work produced by over 100 researchers from around the world provides an overview of this unique field by defining over 1,000 terms relating to museology. The Dictionary of Museology is intended for a broad spectrum of museum professionals, academics, researchers and students. The book will be especially useful to those working with international partners, since a common lexicon that conveys the complex reality of current social and cultural values is particularly vital for those working across borders.

Author : Laura H. Hoptman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:1280872458

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Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe by Laura H. Hoptman Pdf

Author : Julia Allerstorfer,Karolina Majewska-Güde,Monika Leisch-Kiesl
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839473634

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East Central European Art Histories and Austria by Julia Allerstorfer,Karolina Majewska-Güde,Monika Leisch-Kiesl Pdf

The specific role of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the later nation of Austria within the formation of regional art histories in East Central Europe has received little attention in art historical research so far. Taking into account the era of the Dual Monarchy as well as the period after 1989, the contributions analyze and critically scrutinize the imperial legacies, transnational transfer processes and cultural hierarchies in art historiographies, artistic practices and institutional histories. Consisting of 17 texts, with new commissions and one reprint, case studies, monographic essays and interviews grouped thematically into two sections, the anthology proposes a pluriversal narrative on regional, cultural and political contexts.

Author : Agnieszka Chmielewska,Irena Kossowska,Marcin Lachowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000655612

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State Construction and Art in East Central Europe, 1918-2018 by Agnieszka Chmielewska,Irena Kossowska,Marcin Lachowski Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between the art scene and agencies of the state in countries of the region, throughout four consecutive yet highly diverse historical periods: from the period of state integration after World War I, through the communist era post 1945 and the time of political transformation after 1989, to the present-day globalisation (including counter-reactions to westernisation and cultural homogenisation). With twenty-three theoretically and/or empirically oriented articles by authors from sixteen countries (East Central Europe and beyond, including the United States and Australia), the book discusses interconnections between state policies and artistic institutions, trends and the art market from diverse research perspectives. The contributors explore subjects such as the impact of war on the formation of national identities, the role of artists in image-building for the new national states emerging after 1918, the impact of political systems on artists’ attitudes, the discourses of art history, museum studies, monument conservation and exhibition practices. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural politics, cultural history, and East Central European studies and history.

Author : Octavian Esanu
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526157997

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The postsocialist contemporary by Octavian Esanu Pdf

The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art. It comes to these debates from a historicist perspective, taking as its point of departure one particular art programme, initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. First implemented in Hungary, the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) expanded to another eighteen ex-socialist countries throughout the 1990s. Its mission was to build a western ‘open society’ by means of art. This book discusses how network managers and artists participated in the construction of this new social order by studying the programme’s rise, evolution, impact and broader ideological and political consequences. Rather than recounting a history, its engages critically with ‘contemporary art’ as the aesthetic paradigm of late-capitalist market democracy.

Author : Laura J. Hoptman,Tomáš Pospiszyl
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262083132

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Primary Documents by Laura J. Hoptman,Tomáš Pospiszyl Pdf

This text presents documents drawn from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

Author : György Galántai,Julia Klaniczay
Publisher : Artpool Art Research Center
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Art, East European
ISBN : 9789630872256

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ARTPOOL - The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe by György Galántai,Julia Klaniczay Pdf

This volume is a collection of texts and documents selected from and illustrating the history of Artpool, a non-profit artist run institution in Budapest, established in 1979 by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay and operating since 1992 under the name of Artpool Art Research Center. The book focuses on Artpool’s direct antecedents (among them the events at György Galántai's Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár, 1970–1973), on the foundation, development, art projects and events, as well as the preferences and issues pertaining to art research (not independent of the historical and social environment they were conceived in) that had formed throughout the course of many years and decades. "The occasion of the publication of ARTPOOL The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe is a milestone in the history of art for its documentation of a remarkable period in the chronicles of conceptual, performance, installation, and video art, as well ephemeral mediums such as mail art and artists’ stamp sheets, postcards, rubber stamp imprints, artists’ writings and samizdat publications. The work represented in the Artpool archive is astonishing in its scope and quantity, quality of imagination, intellectual force, and the courage of the artists who created it. This volume presents an opportunity to reflect on the events that brought Artpool into being, to acknowledge that while originating in the context of East-Central Europe, Artpool’s community has always been international, and to evaluate its broad contributions to world culture and society." (Kristine Stiles)

Author : Ana Janevski,Roxana Marcoci,Ksenia Nouril
Publisher : Moma Primary Documents
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 1633450643

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Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe by Ana Janevski,Roxana Marcoci,Ksenia Nouril Pdf

This latest volume of MoMA's Primary Documents reflects on the effects that communism's disintegration across Central and Eastern Europe--including the Soviet Union's fifteen republics--had on the art practices, criticism, and cultural production of the following decades.