New Museum Theory and Practice An Introduction

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ISBN: 9781405105590

ISBN-10: 1405105593

ISBN-13: 9781405105590

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Janet Marstine

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The 12 essays in this volume present a study of new museum theory and discuss how that theory can be put into practice. They cover a range of museums around the world as well as historic houses, cultural centres and commercial displays that use museum conventions.

Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

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.



List of Figures


Preface: How to Use this Book


Acknowledgements


Introduction




Defining New Museum Theory.


A Surveys and Groundwork



Editor's Introduction


The Architecture is the Museum



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


Feminist Curatorial Strategies and Practices Since the 1970s




Editor's Introduction


New Art, New Challenges: The Changing Face of Conservation in the Twenty-First Century



Questions for Discussion


B. Case Studies in Contemporary Practice



Editor's Introduction


How We Study History Museums: Or Cultural Studies At Monticello



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


Spectacle and Democracy: Experience Music Project as a Post-Museum



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


Revealing and Concealing: Museums, Objects, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


Restructuring South African Museums: Reality and Rhetoric Within Cape Town




Looking to the Future: Theory into Practice.



Editor's Introduction


The Critical Museums Visitor



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


Visiting the Virtual Museum: Art and Experience Online



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


Reframing Studio Art Production and Critique



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


The University Museum and Gallery: A Site for Institutional Critique and a Focus of the Curriculum



Questions for Discussion



Editor's Introduction


Museum Archives as Resources from Scholarly Research and Institutional Identity



Questions for Discussion


Bibliography


Index