New museum theory and practice : an introduction / edited by Janet Marstine.

"New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum practice. This lively introduction, comprised of essays authored by curators, archivists, scholars, teachers, and conservators from around the world - includi...

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Other Authors: Marstine, Janet.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Defining new museum theory : surveys and groundwork: The architecture is the museum / Michaela Giebelhausen. Feminist curatorial strategies and practices since the 1970s / Katy Deepwell. New art, new challenges : the changing face of conservation in the twenty-first century / Rachel Barker and Patricia Smithen
  • Defining new museum theory : case studies in contemporary practice: How we study history museums : or cultural studies at Monticello / Eric Gable. Spectacle and democracy : experience music project as a post-museum / Chris Bruce. Revealing and concealing : museums, objects, and the transmission of knowledge in aboriginal Australia / Moira G. Simpson. Restructuring South African museums : reality and rhetoric within Cape Town / Julie L. McGee
  • Looking to the future : theory into practice: The critical museum visitor / Margaret Lindauer. Visiting the virtual museum : art and experience online / Lianne McTavish. Reframing studio art production and critique / Helen Klebesadel. The university museum and gallery : a site for institutional critique and a focus of the curriculum / Lyndel King and Janet Marstine. Museum archives as resources for scholarly research and institutional identity / Lois Marie Fink.