Reflections on Critical Museology

ISBN-13: 9781032202952 / Miękka / 2023 / 108 str.

J. Pedro Lorente

Opis

Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-ranging account of critical museology.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1 Academic echoes of the label ‘critical museology’ and its referents; 2 Museums in question, self-questioning museums; 3 Variety and plurality in spatial and interpretive discourse; 4 Representations of historical legacies in times of self-reflexive museology; 5 Final considerations; Index.

O autorze

J. Pedro Lorente is Professor of Art History and Director of the MA in Museum Education and Communication at the University of Saragossa (Spain). He is the author of other books published by Routledge, such as The Museums of Contemporary Art. Notion and Development (also available in Spanish, French and Turkish editions) or Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts (also available in Spanish version).