The Delirious Museum - A Journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas

Informationen zum Autor Calum Storrie is an architect, curator and exhibition designer, who has worked with the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery among others. He has written extensively on the meanings of the museum. Klappentext Giving an interpretation of the relationship between museums and cities! this book presents a view of the idea of the museum! proposing that it is! or should be! a repository of the artefacts of the past and a continuation of the city street in the present. The author's premise is that the museum and the city street are continuous with each other. Zusammenfassung Giving an interpretation of the relationship between museums and cities, this book presents a view of the idea of the museum, proposing that it is, or should be, a repository of the artefacts of the past and a continuation of the city street in the present. The author's premise is that the museum and the city street are continuous with each other.

Product details

• Authors: Calum Storrie
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2005
• EAN: 9781860645693
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-569-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries