The Contemporary Museum: Shaping Museums for the Global Now

ISBN-13: 9780815364931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 238 str.

Simon Knell

Opis

The Contemporary Museum adopts a presentist outlook that challenges traditional assumptions about the museum, whilst simultaneously recognising that the actions of the museum must not be determined by professional or institutional creed, but by contemporary social need.

Recenzje

‘The follow-up volume to Museum Revolutions, The Contemporary Museum recognises the “present” as increasingly defined by the ubiquity of disruption and dissent, and explores the escalation of feelings of anxiety and outrage that arise from a rapidly changing world. The book’s standout achievement is its geographically expansive set of case studies, which richly demonstrate the ongoing humanism and humanity of museums, as sites of affective, albeit often contested, meaning and personal and collective agency. Its analysis of “the present” as it exists in dialogue with the past and future as well as with the broad components of what is occurring globally at any given “now”, will make it essential reading for Museum Studies scholars for many years to come.’
Kylie Message, The Australian National University

O autorze

Simon Knell is Professor of Museum Studies and the senior academic in School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. He has also acted as Head of Department and Dean of Arts.