Cultures of the Countryside: Art, Museum, Heritage, and Environment, 1970-2015

ISBN-13: 9780367879372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 298 str.

Veronica Sekules

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This book traces the relationship between the museum and the micro-cultures of the countryside over the last 50 years, which has been a period of extraordinary tensions and change for the countryside.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Countrification

Country and City

From Preservation to Protection to Campaigning for the Countryside

World Down to Earth

Protecting the Local

Moving to the Country

What does the Countryside Mean to You?

Not the Middle of Nowhere?

Chapter 2: Nostalgia, Art, and Folk Life

Museum and Mechanisation

Collections and Audiences

Nostalgia for the Working Horse

Folk-like in the Museum

Folk Culture: Survival and Revival

Artefacts and Folk

Chapter 3: Heritagisation and the ‘Open Air’

Public-Private Stewardship of Nature-Culture

Open Air Heritage and Democratisation

Landscape and Heritagisation

Interpretation

In the Field

Little Ouse Headwaters Project

Stewardship and the Working Landscape

Chapter 4: Education and the Countryside

The School in the Countryside

Children’s Countryside Knowledge

Environment Education and the Countryside

The Museum and Countryside Education

Outdoor Learning in the Countryside

Harmony and Subversion in the Forest

Education and Artists in the Countryside

Chapter 5: Global Village

BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) Cultural Politics in the Countryside

Norfolk, Suffolk, and Papua New Guinea

Another Way of Learning

Middlesbrough Haka

Artist as Ethnographer

Globalising Village Connections

From ‘Cosmopolitan Contamination’ to Invasive Alien Species

Chapter 6: At the Edge of the Farm

Diversity of Farms

On the Edge of the Farm

Calamities and Creative Consequences

‘More about Human Intellect than Human Muscle’

Images of Farming

The Farm and the Artist-Ethnographer

The Museum

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Veronica Sekules was formerly Deputy Director and Head of Education and Research at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, UK, after an early career start in the environment movement and as a curator and writer. She is now Director of GroundWork Gallery in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, a new space dedicated to art and the environment.