Museums as Assemblage - Analysing dynamic museum practice

Museums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Contemporary Museum Practice: The Museum of Old and New Art; 2. Museums as Assemblage: Practice and Potential; 3. The Normative Museum: The authoritative voice of the museum and the visitor-as-spectator; 4. The Responsive Museum: Community and Constituents; 5. The Affective Museum: Atmospherics, aesthesis, and the sensorial’ 6. The Emergent Museum: Dynamic, hospitable, disruptive

About the author

Jasmin Pfefferkorn is a postdoctoral research fellow in The University of Melbourne’s School of Culture and Communication. Her research centres on museum studies, aesthetics, digital and computational cultures, media and communications, and visual culture. She is the co-founder of the research group CODED AESTHETICS and teaches master's students in global media communications and arts and cultural management.

Summary

Museums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums.

Product details

• Authors: Jasmin Pfefferkorn
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032494203
• ISBN: 978-1-032-49420-3
• No. of pages: 116
• Weight: 230 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Museums in Focus
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Archaeological Theory