Museums and Memory

Name: Museums and Memory
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ISBN: 9780804735650

ISBN-10: 0804735654

ISBN-13: 9780804735650

Edition: 2000

Authors: Susan A. Crane

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This collection of essays considers museums from personal experience and historical study. The contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries, and essays range widely over time and place, in exhibitions and institution type.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Contributors



Introduction: Of Museums and Memory




Thinking Through the Museum



Archi(ve)textures of Museology




A Museum and Its Memory: The Art of Recovering History




Curious Cabinets and Imaginary Museums




Geoffrey Sonnabend's "Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter"




Memories in the Museum



History and Anti-History: Photography Exhibitions and Japanese National Identity




Realizing Memory, Transforming History: Euro / American / Indians




Global Culture, Modern Heritage: Re-membering the Chinese Imperial Collections




Collectors and Institutions



The Modern Muses: Renaissance Collecting and the Cult of Remembrance




The Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns in the German Museums




The Museum's Discourse on Art: The Formation of Curatorial Art History in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin



Notes


Index