Read more
Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Bush is Curator of History/Exhibitions Manager at the Columbus Museum in Georgia. Her professional interests include local history in all its variations, especially in rural communities, and multiple-perspective interpretation. She often focuses her research on social history of the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rebecca earned a BA in History from Kansas State University and a MA in Public History from the University of South Carolina.Tawny Paul is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter (UK). Her work combines academic and public history. Alongside research in eighteenth-century British social history, she has an interest in contemporary uses of the past and in how academic histories can be presented to wider audiences, and has worked professionally as an interpretive planner. Tawny earned her BA in History from Vassar College and holds a PhD in Social History from the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges provides public history practitioners and academics with useful guidance on how art can be integrated into public history initiatives, through critical discussion of tools, strategies, and technologies that contribute to collaboration and engagement across a variety of platforms. Zusammenfassung Art and Public History: Approaches! Opportunities! and Challenges provides public history practitioners and academics with useful guidance on how art can be integrated into public history initiatives! through critical discussion of tools! strategies! and technologies that contribute to collaboration and engagement across a variety of platforms. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Bob Beatty Introduction Rebecca Bush and Tawny Paul 1. Visual Art and the American Experience: Creating an Art Gallery in a History and Culture Museum Tuliza Fleming2. Citizenship and Caricature: Teaching the American Past with Images Jennifer M. Black 3. Investigating the Past through Art: Opportunities for Museum Education Megan Clark and Heidi Moisan 4. "The art museum does history?": Building Connections and Relevancy within Multidisciplinary Museums Rebecca Bush 5. Coming Face-to-Face with the Past: Exploring Scottish History and National Identity through Portraiture Tawny Paul 6. Framing the Collaborative Process Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Julia Brock, and Kirstie Tepper7. A Call for Proactive Public Historians Nancy Dallett8. Savannah's Hidden Histories: Using Art and Historical Markers to Explore Local History Holly Goldstein and Christy Crisp 9. Travelers, Tale-telling, Truth, and Time Rebecca Keller Conclusion Rebecca Bush and Tawny Paul Bibliography About the Contributors...
