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Sommario
Introduction: museums for the global contemporary
PART I: A WORLD OF EQUALS
1. Modernisms: Curating art’s past in the global present; 2. Indigenisation: Reconceptualising museology; 3. Islam: Islamic art, the Islamic world – and museums; 4. Xenophobia: Museums, refugees and fear of the other; 5. Diplomacy: Museums and international exhibitions
PART II: PRESENT PASTS
6. Transience: Curating ephemeral art; 7. Performances: Contemporary encounters in historic spaces; 8. Transhistoricism: Using the past to critique the present; 9. Pasts: Authoring national histories in the contemporary city
PART III: WHO WE ARE
10. Disability: Museums and our understandings of difference;11. Contact: Framing prostitution in a city museum; 12. Small wins: Tactics for the contemporary museum; 13. Anxiety: Unease in the museum
Info autore
Simon Knell is Professor of Museum Studies and the senior academic in School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. He has also acted as Head of Department and Dean of Arts.
Riassunto
The Contemporary Museum adopts a presentist outlook that challenges traditional assumptions about the museum, whilst simultaneously recognising that the actions of the museum must not be determined by professional or institutional creed, but by contemporary social need.
Testo aggiuntivo
‘The follow-up volume to Museum Revolutions, The Contemporary Museum recognises the “present” as increasingly defined by the ubiquity of disruption and dissent, and explores the escalation of feelings of anxiety and outrage that arise from a rapidly changing world. The book’s standout achievement is its geographically expansive set of case studies, which richly demonstrate the ongoing humanism and humanity of museums, as sites of affective, albeit often contested, meaning and personal and collective agency. Its analysis of “the present” as it exists in dialogue with the past and future as well as with the broad components of what is occurring globally at any given “now”, will make it essential reading for Museum Studies scholars for many years to come.’
Kylie Message, The Australian National University
