Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Museum Studies

Since the Second World War, art...

..".being packed with ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, this volume] can serve as an introduction to regional circumpolar studies as well as to Northern communities, past and present, indigenous or simply local." -...

Das Dom Museum Wien am Stephansplatz prasentiert sich architektonisch und konzeptionell neu ausgerichtet im Spannungsfeld von Kunst, Kirche und Gesellschaft. In diesem Fuhrer werden formal aussergewohnliche, inhaltlich vielfaltige, mitunter auch ratselhafte Kunstobjekte aus den unterschiedlichen Epochen lebendig, etwa das erste Portrat des Abendlandes in Dreiviertelansicht Rudolf des Stifters oder die Avantgarde-Klassiker der Sammlung Otto Mauer.

Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm, 1930-present investigates the ways that craft and design objects were collected, displayed, and interpreted throughout the second half of the twentieth century and in recent years. The case studies discussed in this volume explain the notion the neutral display space had worked with, challenged, distorted, or assisted in conveying the ideas of the exhibitions in question. In various ways the essays included in this volume analyse and investigate strategies to facilitate interaction amongst craft and design...

We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions - which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose - and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once.

Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a...

Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from...

Evergreen--the long-time home of the Garrett family in north Baltimore--offers a preeminent example of antebellum-American Italianate architecture. It also houses a remarkably diverse collection of over 50,000 objects, including paintings, furniture, sculpture, ceramics, and rare books. Acquired by two generations of the prominent Garrett family, self-described -collectors by instinct and by education, - the assemblage of fine and decorative arts is remarkable in scope and inventiveness. Now part of the Johns Hopkins University, the mansion endures as a rare visual encyclopedia,...