Grasping the world : the idea of the museum / edited by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago.

The 41 essays in 'Grasping the world' deal with historical material spanning over half a millennium, from the medieval and early modern periods to the beginning of the twenty-first century. All texts included have theoretical and historiographical import. The anthology is organized themati...

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Other Authors: Preziosi, Donald, 1941-, Farago, Claire J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2004]
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505 0 |a The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- Psychoanalysis and its history / Michel de Certeau -- Rome, the archetypal museum, and the Louvre, the negation of division / Jean-Louis Déotte -- Poetics of the museum : Lenoir and Du Sommerard / Stephen Bann -- Telling objects : a narrative perspective on collecting / Mieke Bal -- Collective memory and memoria rerum : an architecture for thinking / Mary Carruthers -- Science-honour-metaphor : Italian cabinets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Giuseppe Olmi -- Natural history and the emblematic world view / William B. Ashworth Jr. -- The museum : its classical etymology and Renaissance genealogy / Paula Findlen -- Inventing Assyria : exoticism and reception in nineteenth-century England and France / Frederick N. Bohrer -- Double visions / Homi K. Bhabha -- Teddy bear patriarchy : taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway -- From the princely gallery to the public art museum : the Louvre museum and the National Gallery, London / Carol Duncan -- Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities / Annie E. Coombes -- Creating identity : exhibiting the Philippines at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Beverly K. Grindstaff -- Performing identity : the museal framing of Nazi ideology / Sandra Esslinger -- The cosmic theme park of the Javanese / Shelly Errington -- Introduction to museum without walls / André Malraux -- Texts/contexts : of other spaces / Michel Foucault -- Power/knowledge -- constructed space and the subject / Paul Q. Hirst -- Museums : managers of consciousness / Hans Haacke -- The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett -- Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell -- China in Britain : the imperial collections / Craig Clunas -- The museum of modern art as late capitalist ritual : an iconographical analysis / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach -- Animals as cultural signs : collecting animals in sixteenth-century Medici Florence / Claudia Lazzaro -- Remarks on the collection of Rudolf II : the Kunstkammer as a form of representation / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- Philip Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolfus's Kunstschrank / Hans-Olof Boström -- Museums in eighteenth-century Rome / Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny -- The genesis and early development of the Royal Museum in Stockholm : a claim for authenticity and legitimacy / Magnus Olausson and Solfrid Söderlind -- The cultural logic of the late capitalist museum / Rosalind Krauss -- Collision / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska -- Cultural reflections / Moira Simpson -- Histories of the tribal and the modern / James Clifford -- Always true to the object, in our fashion / Susan Vogel -- From primitivism to ethnic arts / Rasheed Araeen -- Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge -- Remaking passports : visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Néstor García Canclini -- Our (museum) world turned upside down : re-presenting Native American arts / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips -- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles : an account of collaboration between artists, trustees and an architect / Jo-Anne Berelowitz -- The identity card project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Andrea Liss -- Where is 'Africa'? : re-viewing art and artifact in the age of globalization / Ruth B. Philips. 
520 |a The 41 essays in 'Grasping the world' deal with historical material spanning over half a millennium, from the medieval and early modern periods to the beginning of the twenty-first century. All texts included have theoretical and historiographical import. The anthology is organized thematically rather than chronologically and includes cross-indexes. 
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