Museum and Gallery Publishing: From Theory to Case Study

ISBN-13: 9781472437143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 210 str.

Sally Hughes

Opis

Museums, art galleries, historic sites, libraries and temporary exhibitions publish physical books and electronic resources in various formats for their visitors and for a wider non-visiting audience. These printed materials represent their institutions locally, regionally and globally while also contributing to the complex media landscape navigated by museum audiences for entertainment and education. This book presents the theory and practice of general and scholarly publishing associated with museum and gallery collections. Sally Hughes examines the production and reception of these texts, extending our understanding of this important but hitherto overlooked topic which includes issues of curators' and artists' agency, funding and sponsorship, marketing, visitor studies, informal education and retail. Using both theory and case studies from around the world, this book will be essential reading for researchers in the fields of museum, heritage, art and publishing studies, as well as practitioners working in museums, heritage and science centres and art galleries.

Spis treści

Foreword  Preface  1. Why museum and art gallery publishing?  2. Where did it all start? Tracing the origins and development of museum and art gallery publishing  3. Following the money – income, brand and global reach  4. Where is my book? Books for curators, directors, artists, sponsors and collectors  5. Functioning at full intellectual tilt–publishing research and scholarship  6. When visitors become readers–museum audiences and books  7. At the threshold–researching museum and art gallery publishing  8. Reading the Runes—Futures for museum and art gallery publishing

O autorze

Sarah Anne Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has previously worked in museums in Botswana and the USA, including at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and holds a PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, UK.