Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Museum Studies

Das Eroffnungsbuch des neuen Dom Museum Wien beleuchtet die Themenbereiche rund um die vielfaltigen Sammlungsbestande, das Verhaltnis Kunst und Kirche und die architektonische wie inhaltliche Neugestaltung des Hauses. Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, Gesprache mit ExpertInnen und die visuelle Dokumentation der Werke aus unterschiedlichen Epochen der europaischen Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart runden den Band ab.

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,...

Image-sharing and social media are driving an unprecedented boom in audiences for photography. Underscoring this trend, the world's biggest museum space for the presentation of photography opened this year: the Pritzker Center for Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art devotes over 15,000 square feet to the medium.

As the New York Times commented in 2013, "Museum directors are realizing that photography exhibitions attract crowds, particularly the young audiences they covet, so they are giving more attention and space to the medium than ever...

10 Must Reads: History of Photography From Original Sources is not just another book on the history of photography. Based entirely on original sources of the time, it reflects the energy, excitement and passion which the invention and development of photography evoked in its most innovative and experimental period during the years 1840-1900.

At the outset, Henry Fox Talbot diffidently introduces photography to the world in his "little work now presented to the public." While just 45 years later photographer P H Emerson launches his polemic arguing...

Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform modern perceptions of antiquity. This book analyzes how an art historical tradition establishes and preserves an idealized view of antiquity in classical archaeology and in museum exhibitions. The authors investigate how these ideals are kept alive today--an approach that often is neglected in studies...