Museums in the Material World

ISBN-13: 9780415416986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 392 str.

Simon Knell

Opis

Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section introductions.

The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice, how the practices of the past have been critiqued and in some cases replaced, how it has become necessary to look beyond and outside disciplinary boundaries, and how old practices can in many circumstances continue to have validity.

Museums in the Material World is about broadening horizons and moving museum studies students, and others, beyond the narrow confines of their own disciplinary thinking or indeed any narrow conception of collections. In essence this is a book about the practice of interpretation and will therefore be of great use to those students and museum practitionersinvolved in the field of material culture in museums.

Spis treści

Section 1: Empiricism, Context and Expertise  Section 2: Politics, Subjectivity and Interpretation  Section 3: Possession, Consumption and Identity  Section 4: Time, Change and Transient Meanings

O autorze

Simon Knell is Head of Departmentat the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester