Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in the eighteenth century to the present day. As long as museums have existed, their visitors have been scrutinised, both formally and informally, and their behaviour calibrated as a register of cognitive receptivity and cultural competence. Yet there has been little sustained theoretical or practical attention given to the visitors' embodied encounter with the museum. In Museum Bodies Helen Rees Leahy discusses the politics and practice of visitor...
Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in th...
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies bring together original essays by a global team of experts to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the field of museum studies.
Offers unprecedented depth of coverage and breadth of scholarship in this interdisciplinary field
Accessibly structured into four thematic volumes exploring all aspects of museum theory, practice, controversies, and the impact of new technologies
Includes a treasure trove of examples and original case studies
Features original essays by an international team,...
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies bring together original essays by a global team of experts to provide a state-of-the-art surve...
