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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Table of Contents:
- 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.