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Author : Kevin Moore
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780718502270
Museums and Popular Culture seeks to unravel the paradox that to adequately reflect popular culture museums may need to abandon their traditional form. This is a book which no one interested in museums can afford to ignore.
Author : Kevin Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 1350056766
What are museums for? How far should museums shift from their traditional focus on high culture to explore popular culture? How can the passion people feel for popular material culture best be conveyed in displays? In attempting to answer these fundamental questions, Kevin Moore offers a radical critique of existing museum practice, arguing that, in order to have a sustainable future, museums must rise to the challenge of representing popular culture. Drawing on examples (both successful and unsuccessful) of contemporary museum practice, including the V&A's blockbuster shows on David Bowie and Alexander McQueen, and the Saatchi Gallery's Rolling Stones exhibiti, he seeks to unravel the paradox that to reflect popular culture adequately, museums may need to abandon their traditional form.
Author : Fred E. H. Schroeder
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : 0879721626
Although libraries and museums for many centuries have taken the lead, under one rational or another, in recovering, storing, and displaying various kinds of culture of their periods, lately, as the gap between elite and popular culture has apparently widened, these repositories of artifacts of the present for the future have tended to drift more and more to what many people call the aesthetically pleasing elements of our culture. The degree to which our libraries and museums have ignored our culture is terrifying, when one scans the documents and artifacts of our time which, if history in any wise repeats itself, will in the immediate and distant future become valuable indices of our present culture to future generations. As Professor Schroeder dramatically states it, "No doubt about it, it is the contemporary popular culture that is the endangered species." The essays in this book investigate the reasons for present-day neglect of popular culture materials and chart the various routes by which conscientious and insightful librarians and museum directors can correct this disastrous oversight.
Author : Thomas Ritchie Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005066217
Author : Kirk Varnedoe,Adam Gopnik,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951P00296450M
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Adult education
ISBN : OCLC:1015762769
Author : Laura Raicovich
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781839760525
A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change. As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence. In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.
Author : Thomas Ritchie Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Adult education
ISBN : OCLC:302013517
Author : Arnold T. Blumberg
Publisher : Gemstone Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1888472685
Museum gallery floor plan on 1 folded leaf inserted at back of book.
Author : Lynnette Porter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476623764
Vincent van Gogh continues to fascinate more than a century after his death in 1890. Yet how much of what is commonly known about this world-renowned artist is accurate? Though he left thousands of works and a trove of letters, the definitive Van Gogh remains elusive. Was he a madman who painted his greatest pieces in a passionate fury or a lifelong student of art, literature and science who carefully planned each composition? Was he a loner dedicated only to his craft or an active collaborator with his contemporaries? Why is he best known for self-mutilation and "The Starry Night"? This book has biographers, scriptwriters, lyricists, actors, museum curators and tour guides, among others, presenting diverse interpretations of his life and work, creating a mythic persona that may, in fact, help us in the search for the real Van Gogh.
Author : Joshua A. Bell,Alison K. Brown,Robert J. Gordon
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781935623243
Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly the airplane and automobile and small, portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were utilized by a variety of expeditions to document the last untouched places of the globe and bring them home to eager audiences. These expeditions were frequently presented as first contact encounters and enchanted popular imagination. The various narratives encoded in the articles, books, films, exhibitions and lecture tours that these expeditions generated fed into pre-existing stereotypes about racial and technological difference, and helped to create them anew in popular culture. Through an unpacking of expeditions and their popular wakes, the essays (12 chapters, a preface, introduction and afterward) trace the complex but obscured relationships between anthropology, adventure travel and the cinematic imagination that the 1920s and 1930s engendered and how their myths have endured. The book further explores the effects - both positive and negative - of such expeditions on the discipline of anthropology itself. However, in doing so, this volume examines these impacts from a variety of national perspectives and thus through these different vantage points creates a more nuanced perspective on how expeditions were at once a global phenomenon but also culturally ordered.
Author : T. R. Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0282295747
Excerpt from The Museum and Popular CultureWe are apt to underestimate the importance of origins in appraising present-day institutions. We judge the development of museums as instruments for popular learning in science, in history, and in art as if the objective of widespread knowledge among the masses had always been an avowed aim of our culture. In historical fact, we have had less than two centuries of open acknowledgment of a general right of access to the uncensored tools of learning. In many fields, particularly those that touch upon the domain of theology or human biology, such freedom as exists for the untrammeled propagation of facts and opinions is of very recent origin. For at least ten centuries during the formative period of our Christian era, the widespread propaga tion of critical and factual information concerning man and his environment was not only physically difficult but also anathema to all the powers that ruled the community of Christendom.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Vikki Tobak
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780525573883
ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS 0F 2018 AN NPR AND PITCHFORK BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 PICK ONE OF TIME'S 25 BEST PHOTOBOOKS OF 2018 NEW YORK TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS, WALLSTREET JOURNAL, ROLLING STONE, AND CHICAGO SUN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE PICK The perfect gift for music and photography fans, an inside look at the work of hip-hop photographers told through their most intimate diaries—their contact sheets. Featuring rare outtakes from over 100 photoshoots alongside interviews and essays from industry legends, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop takes readers on a chronological journey from old-school to alternative hip-hop and from analog to digital photography. The ultimate companion for music and photography enthusiasts, Contact High is the definitive history of hip-hop’s early days, celebrating the artists that shaped the iconic album covers, t-shirts and posters beloved by hip-hop fans today. With essays from BILL ADLER, RHEA L. COMBS, FAB 5 FREDDY, MICHAEL GONZALES, YOUNG GURU, DJ PREMIER, and RZA
Author : T. R. ADAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:655387734
Author : Charles Fairchild
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501368905
In recent years, popular music museums have been established in high profile locations in many of the presumed “musical capitals” of the world, such as Los Angeles, Liverpool, Seattle, Memphis, and Nashville. Most of these are defined by expansive experiential infrastructures centered around spectacular, high-tech displays of varying sizes and types. Through over-the-top acts of display, these museums influence and reflect the values and priorities in the public life of popular music. This book examines the phenomenon of the popular music museum outside the typical and familiar frames of heritage and tourism. Instead, it looks at these institutions as markers of the broader entertainment industry in the era of its rise to global dominance. It highlights the multiple manifestations of power as read across a range of institutions and material forms and discusses how this contributes to shaping the experience of popular culture.
