Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Museum Studies

How would our understanding of museums change if we used the Vintage Wireless Museum or the Museum of Witchcraft as examples rather than the British Museum or the Louvre? Although there are thousands of small, independent, single-subject museums in the UK, Europe and North America, the field of museum studies remains focused almost exclusively on major institutions.

In this ground-breaking new book, Fiona Candlin reveals how micromuseums challenge preconceived ideas about what museums are and how they operate. Based on extensive fieldwork and analysis of more than fifty micromuseums,...

Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an...

The museum of contemporary art might be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experimentation.

Arseny Zhilyaev's Avant-Garde Museology presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of this period by figures such as Nikolai Fedorov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich,...

This book presents the first full-length ethnographic study of museum education practices, by exploring a four-year long engagement with adult classes at a major urban art gallery in the United Kingdom. Using detailed descriptions of gallery tours, creative writing classes, and in-depth interviews with class members and gallery educators, it provides a richly layered picture of how and why experiencing and making 'art' matters. By tracing the process of creativity through the minds of the participants, the book also offers a powerful critique of the ways in which museums view themselves as...

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...

Museums and the Past explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. Using case studies from a Canadian context, the contributors to this collection reflect on the challenges in maintaining and developing museums as meaningful places of memory and learning. Discussions of museum practice and historical consciousness ? how our understanding of the past shapes our sense of the future ? consider the modern museum's narratives and pedagogical responsibilities and how museums continue to inform our sense of history.