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Dream spaces : memory and the museum / Gaynor Kavanagh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavanagh, Gaynor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Philosophy.
- Museums.
- Museums--Social aspects.
- Museums--Educational aspects.
- Memory (Philosophy).
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Learning, Psychology of.
- Communication and culture.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- "The dream space", writes Sheldon Annis, "is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum". In Memory and the Museum, Gaynor Kavanaugh argues that "dream spaces" are the point at which our inner and outer experiences meld. During the museum visit, memory and the present cease to be disparate but fuse into one singular experience. Drawing from such fields as behavioral gerontology, applied psychology, and historiography, Kavanaugh employs research from North America, Australia, and Europe to provide a critical and conceptual exploration into museums and the mind.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [176]-189) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0718502078
- 0718502280
- OCLC:
- 42061153
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