Museums As Assemblage

Author : Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000965810

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Museums as Assemblage by Jasmin Pfefferkorn Pdf

Museums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums. Using the concept of assemblage, this book unpacks relations between visitors, artists, museum staff, and the museum’s nonhuman components, providing an analytical framework that celebrates the complexity of museums today. It takes the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania as its primary case study but situates it in global trends by drawing on a range of examples from art museums across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and East Asia. It provides insight into how perceptions around engagement are enabled and constrained in the context of different museums and highlights the necessity of an analytical framework that accommodates the complexity and multiplicity of the contemporary museum landscape. With an emphasis on visitor experience and curatorial strategy, the book is valuable for students and researchers in museum studies, art history, curatorial studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Peggy Levitt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520286061

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Artifacts and Allegiances by Peggy Levitt Pdf

What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a countryÕs cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. Based on firsthand conversations with museum directors, curators, and policymakers; descriptions of current and future exhibitions; and inside stories about the famous paintings and iconic objects that define collections across the globe, this work provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism. By comparing museums in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, Peggy Levitt offers a fresh perspective on the role of the museum in shaping citizens. Taken together, these accounts tell the fascinating story of a sea change underway in the museum world at large.

Author : William Chapin Seitz,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1086254807

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The Art of Assemblage by William Chapin Seitz,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Amy E. Potter,Stephen P. Hanna,Derek H. Alderman,Perry L. Carter,Candace Forbes Bright,David L. Butler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780820368139

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Remembering Enslavement by Amy E. Potter,Stephen P. Hanna,Derek H. Alderman,Perry L. Carter,Candace Forbes Bright,David L. Butler Pdf

Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014–17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing inequalities in how they narrate and memorialize the formerly enslaved. Using assemblage theory as a framework, Remembering Enslavement offers an innovative approach for studying heritage sites, retelling and remapping the ways that slavery and the enslaved are included in southern plantation museums. It examines multiple plantation sites across geographic areas, considering the experiences of a diversity of actors: tourists, museum managers/owners, and tour guides/interpreters. This approach allows for an understanding of regional variations among plantation museums, narratives, and performances, as well as more in-depth study of the plantation tour experience and public interpretations. The authors conclude the book with a set of questions designed to help professionals reassemble plantation museum narratives and landscapes to more justly position the formerly enslaved at their center.

Author : Andrea Witcomb,Kylie Message
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119642084

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Museum Theory by Andrea Witcomb,Kylie Message Pdf

MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGE Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced. Organized around three themes—Thinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory—the text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.

Author : Sharon Macdonald,Helen Rees Leahy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 2813 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405198509

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The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 4 Volume Set by Sharon Macdonald,Helen Rees Leahy Pdf

The International Handbooks of Museum Studies is a multi-volume reference work that represents a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by leading international museum experts and emerging scholars, readings cover all aspects of museum theory, practice, debates, and the impact of technologies. The four volumes in the series, divided thematically, offer in-depth treatment of all major issues relating to museum theory; historical and contemporary museum practice; mediations in art, design, and architecture; and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum. In addition to invaluable surveys of current scholarship, the entries include a rich and diverse panoply of examples and original case studies to illuminate the various perspectives. Unprecedented for its in-depth topic coverage and breadth of scholarship, the multi-volume International Handbooks of Museum Studies is an indispensable resource for the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.

Author : Karen Exell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317279013

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Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula by Karen Exell Pdf

Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula is dedicated to the recent and rapid high-profile development of museums in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the a number of the Arabian Peninsula states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and theUAE. These Gulf states are dynamically involved in the establishment of museums to preserve and , represent their distinct national culture and heritage, as well as engaging in the regional and global art worlds through the construction of state-of-the-art art museums. Alongside such developments is a rich world of collection and displaying material culture in homes and private museums that is little known to the outside world. Museum Studies literature has struggled to keep pace with such developments and Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula is the first book to coherently present: a contemporary overview of the ever-evolving landscape of museums and related heritage projects in the Arabian Peninsula a critical evaluation of the nature of these museum projects within the political and cultural conditions in the Arabian Peninsula suggestions for productive ways forward for museum developments in the Arabian Peninsula Museums Studies students and museum professionals now have a book that fills an important gap in the picture of the museum worldwide. Contextualising this study in the history and politics of the region, from a scholar working within the region, this in-depth overview and critical analysis of museums in the Arabian Peninsula stands alone as an entry into this important topic.

Author : Fiona Cameron,Brett Neilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135013523

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Climate Change and Museum Futures by Fiona Cameron,Brett Neilson Pdf

Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature. Climate change is a global force, with global impacts. Viable solutions on what to do must involve dialogues and decision-making with many agencies, stakeholder groups and communities crossing all sectors and scales. Current policy approaches are inadequate and finding a consensus on how to reduce levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere through international protocols has proven difficult. Gaps between science and society limit government and industry capacity to engage with communities to broker innovative solutions to climate change. Drawing on leading-edge research and creative programming initiatives, this collection details the important roles and agencies that cultural institutions (in particular, natural history and science museums and science centres) can play within these gaps as resources, catalysts and change agents in climate change debates and decision-making processes; as unique public and trans-national spaces where diverse stakeholders, government and communities can meet; where knowledge can be mediated, competing discourses and agendas tabled and debated; and where both individual and collective action might be activated.

Author : Tim Murray,Kristal Buckley,Dr Sarah Hayes,Geoff Hewitt,Justin McCarthy,Professor Richard Mackay,Barbara Minchinton,Charlotte Smith,Jeremy Smith,Bronwyn Woff
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743322246

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The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne by Tim Murray,Kristal Buckley,Dr Sarah Hayes,Geoff Hewitt,Justin McCarthy,Professor Richard Mackay,Barbara Minchinton,Charlotte Smith,Jeremy Smith,Bronwyn Woff Pdf

This groundbreaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block – the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets.

Author : Stephen Burrow,National Museums & Galleries of Wales
Publisher : National Museum Wales
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9780720005165

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Catalogue of the Mesolithic and Neolithic Collections at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales by Stephen Burrow,National Museums & Galleries of Wales Pdf

This essential and unique aspect of the Museum's collections is comprehensively catalogued for the first time. Contains background information on archaeological finds and their locations.

Author : William Chapin Seitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015009424915

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The Art of Assemblage by William Chapin Seitz Pdf

"Assemblage art consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found-objects."--Boundless.

Author : Pieter Bevelander,Christina Johansson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789188661050

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Museums in a Time of Migration by Pieter Bevelander,Christina Johansson Pdf

Migration has, across time, contributed to the development and reshaping of societies and urban spaces. Today, migration movements have become a global phenomenon, where the number of countries affected--socially, economically and culturally--by migration is continually increasing. As in past times, the reasons why people move are varied and often intertwined. Sometimes it is about people fleeing poverty, war, ethnic conflicts, environmental disasters or different forms of persecution--for example religious. However, people also move for other reasons, such as work and studies in other countries, or out of curiosity and a sense of adventure. International migration and mobility have implications for many sectors in society, including the museum sector. To be in tune with the times and relevant to all citizens, the museum sector needs, more than ever, to address issues that transcend national borders. As important educational institutions often visited by, amongst others, schoolchildren, museums have the potential to affect our notions of the world. By making museums places for exploring and learning about both the past and the present of issues such as migration, mobility, transnational connections and human rights, they not only become more relevant as cultural institutions, but may also facilitate positive changes in how people relate to each other in the wider society--thereby ultimately contributing to society's sustainable development. This book seeks to contribute to the discussion about how museums can improve their engagement in issues of migration and becoming more inclusive. The book provides both relevant theoretical reflections and new and innovative empirical examples on museums' engagement in migration from several parts of the world. Several distinguished scholars and curators discuss and reflect on museums' perspectives, collecting practices, collaborations, and representations of migration.

Author : Zachary Kingdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501337932

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Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa by Zachary Kingdon Pdf

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon's study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard's numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.

Author : Mark W. Rectanus
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452962078

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Museums Inside Out by Mark W. Rectanus Pdf

An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century In Museums Inside Out, Mark W. Rectanus investigates how museums are blurring the boundaries between their gallery walls and public spaces. He examines how artists are challenging and changing museums, taking readers deep into new experiments in exhibition making. Along the way, Rectanus offers insights about how museums currently exemplify the fusion of the creative and digital economies. Exploring contemporary museum practices, initiatives, and collaborations, Rectanus analyzes projects like the Collective Museum, which foster land-based museum ecologies by co-curating with local communities. The Schirn Kunsthalle, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, and Tate Modern reflect museums as cultural zones for performance, inside and outside the museum. In addition, he studies a joint project between the Van Gogh Museum and the investment firm Deloitte Luxembourg, extracting insights on the transfer of expertise from museums to the financial sector. Wide-ranging in its case studies, and boldly putting museum studies and art into conversation, Museums Inside Out delivers vital insights into the ideas and places that museums are creating in contemporary culture.

Author : Emilie Morwenna Whitaker,Paul Atkinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429615078

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Ethnographic Explorations by Emilie Morwenna Whitaker,Paul Atkinson Pdf

In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level. In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explores a series of tensions and differences in the conceptualisation and conduct of ethnography, among them: Surrender and Catch; Strangeness and Familiarity; Intimacy and Distance; amd Romanticism and Modernism. It emphasises disruptions and interruptions rather than an idealised model of smoothly untroubled research. The book covers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, illustrated with research in many social settings. The book is intended for researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels and at experienced researchers who want to read a different, sometimes challenging, take on ethnographic research and its outcomes.