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Analysing Museum Display - Theory and Method

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Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks & methods, charting major contributions to the field & exploring their potentials and limitations


List of contents










Walkthrough I: First Australians, Canberra, 2019; 1. Introduction: What is display?; Walkthrough II: Atrocity and trauma, Oslo, 2015; Walkthrough III: A world of shape and colour, Corfu Town, 2021; 2. Why analyse display?; Walkthrough IV: In the shadow of colonialism, Heldenplatz, Vienna, 2023; 3. Script, ritual, performance; Walkthrough V: Your face, Bratislava, 2023; 4. Text, narrative, exposure; Walkthrough VI: Atmospheres of deep time, London, 2022; 5. Affect, assemblage, atmosphere; Walkthrough VII: The web of life, Lyon, France, 2022; Walkthrough VIII: Momentous encounters, Verona, 2023; 6. Map, space, positioning; Walkthrough IX: A long-gone display, London, 1878; 7. Orientations for analytical practice; 8. References; Index.


About the author










Christopher Whitehead is Professor of Museology at Newcastle University, UK, where he is the current Dean of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Humanities at the Australian National University. He teaches museum and heritage studies and has trained generations of students in curatorship and exhibition development. He has published extensively on museum history, theory, and practice, and on the politics and experience of heritage and memory. He is series editor of Routledge Critical Heritages of Europe.


Summary

Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks & methods, charting major contributions to the field & exploring their potentials and limitations

Product details

Authors Christopher Whitehead, Whitehead Christopher
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2024
 
EAN 9781138545915
ISBN 978-1-138-54591-5
No. of pages 234
Weight 470 g
Illustrations schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology

Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, ART / Museum Studies, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Industrial / commercial art & design, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc

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