Museums and Photography: Displaying Death

ISBN-13: 9781138852044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 322 str.

Elena Stylianou; Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

Opis

Elena Stylianou is Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory at the European University, Cyprus. She earned a PhD in Art Theory from Columbia University, USA and completed her postdoctoral fellowship research at the University of London, UK. She has taught at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and has received numerous fellowships and awards including the Fulbright and the Spencer. Her research interests include contemporary art, curatorial practices and pedagogy, photography, and archives. She is currently the principle investigator of the funded research project "The Political Potential of Curatorial Practices and Educational Paradigms." Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is Assistant Professor in the Multimedia and Graphic Arts Department as well as the Coordinator of the Visual Sociology and Museum Studies lab at the Cyprus University of Technology. She holds a PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, UK. She was recently awarded a Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute, USA. Her research interests include photography and visual sociology, as well as museum and visitor studies with an emphasis on art museums and issues of cultural consumption.

Recenzje

"In essence, the images of death in a museum context question the communicative capacity and constraints of photography and the role of museums in elucidating the human condition. This book will likely stimulate some new thinking about death and its multi-layered meanings that define who we are." – Vivian Ting Wing Yan, The Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong