The contemporary museum :shaping museums for the global now
- 其他作者: Knell, Simon J.
- 出版:
- 稽核項: xii, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations (some color) ;25 cm.
- 標題: Museums. , Museum exhibits Social aspects. , Museums Social aspects. , Museums , Social aspects. , Museum exhibits , Museums and community.
- ISBN: 0815364938 , 9780815364931
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: museums for the global contemporary / Simon Knell -- Modernisms: curating art's past in the global present / Simon Knell -- Indigenisation: reconceptualising museology / Conal McCarthy -- Islam: Islamic art, the Islamic world , and museums / John Reeve -- Xenophobia: museums, refugees and fear of the other / Andrea Witcomb -- Diplomacy: museums and international exhibitions / Da Kong -- Transience: curating ephemeral art / Stacy Boldrick -- Performances: contemporary encounters in historic spaces / Romina Delia -- Transhistoricism: using the past to critique the present / Annette Loeseke -- Pasts: authoring national histories in the contemporary city / Cintia Velázquez Marroni -- Disability: museums and our understandings of difference / Richard Sandell -- Contact: framing prostitution in a city museum / Annemarie de Wildt -- Small wins: tactics for the contemporary museum / Viviane Gosselin -- Anxiety: unease in the museum / Jennifer Walklate.
- 摘要: "The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose in the pursuit of tradition or in idealistic speculation about the future, the book asserts that this can only be found through an ongoing and proactive negotiation with the present: the contemporary. This volume is not concerned with any present, but with the peculiar circumstances of what it refers to as the 'global contemporary' - the sense of living in a globally connected world that is preoccupied with the contemporary. To situate the museum in this world of real and immediate need and action, beyond the reach of history, the book argues, is to empower it to challenge existing dogmas and inequalities and sweep aside old hierarchies. As a result, fundamental questions need to be asked about such things as the museum's relationship to global time and space, to systems and technologies of knowing, to 'the life well lived', to the movement and rights of people, and to the psychology, permanence and organisation of culture. Incorporating diverse viewpoints from around the world, The Contemporary Museum is a follow-up volume to Museum Revolutions."--Publisher's description.
- 系統號: 005273328
- 資料類型: 圖書
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The Contemporary Museum adopts a presentist outlook that challenges the idea of the museum as having been formed in the past, being controlled by its collections, following tradition, or being shaped to meet some future ideal. In doing so, the book recognises that the actions of the museum must not be determined by professional or institutional creed, but by contemporary social need. Defining the ¿contemporary¿ as our present-day focus, the book concentrates very specifically on what we are experiencing in the here and now. Viewing the present era as defined by ephemeral contemporary and global awareness, The Contemporary Museum locates the museum in a world of immediate need and action. Its presentist lens alters the writing of history and the doing of art history, as well as altering the city and the psychology of being. This global contemporary lens is applied across the book and contributors to the volume draw upon examples from around the world in order to provide a consideration of global concern and, in turn, an egalitarian worldview. The Contemporary Museum is a follow-up volume to Museum Revolutions and as such, should be essential reading for students in the fields of museum and heritage studies, cultural studies, communication and media studies, art history and social policy. Academics and museum professionals who are interested in learning more about how museums interpret their collections and serve their audiences should also find the book valuable.
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