Museums after modernism : strategies of engagement / edited by Griselda Pollock and Joyce Zemans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollock, Griselda.

Zemans, Joyce, 1940-

Series:

New interventions in art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art museums--Philosophy.

Art museums.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.

Summary:

Museums After Modernism is a diverse set of essays that addresses the urgent question of how the museum can be a public institution, a focus for critical debate and knowledge in an era when museums and galleries are increasingly being subsumed into national heritage and civic tourist industries through blockbusters and managed education programs. The book uniquely brings together artists, curators, art historians, and users to explore the strategies for non-canonical and creative fostering of the museum as a public space for dialogue and transformation in the postcolonial era. Combining theoretical reflections on the histories of the museum with recent case studies, Museums After Modernism goes beyond current museology and reconsiders the strategies of engagement with what the museum could be "after modernism."

Contents:

1 Un-Framing the Modern: Critical Space/Public Possibility / Griselda Pollock 1

2 Women's Rembrandt / Mieke Bal 40

3 Museums and the Native Voice / Gerald McMaster 70

4 Exhibiting Africa after Modernism: Globalization, Pluralism, and the Persistent Paradigms of Art and Artifact / Ruth B. Phillips 80

5 Mirroring Evil, Evil Mirrored: Timing, Trauma, and Temporary Exhibitions / Reesa Greenberg 104

6 A Place for Uncertainty: Towards a New Kind of Museum / Vera Frenkel 119

7 The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi: Notes on Gesture, Medium, and Mediation / Mary Kelly 131

8 Riksutstallningar: Swedish Traveling Exhibitions / Ulla Arnell 141

9 Reframing Participation in the Museum: A Syncopated Discussion / Janna Graham, Shadya Yasin 157

10 "There Is No Such Thing as a Visitor" / Judith Mastai 173

11 "Anxious Dust": History and Repression in the Archives of Mary Kelly / Judith Mastai 178

12 On Discourse as Monument: Institutional Spaces and Feminist Problematics / Juli Carson 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-234) and index.

ISBN:

1405136278

9781405136273

1405136286

9781405136280

OCLC:

69331786