The art of museum exhibitions : how story and imagination create aesthetic experiences / Leslie Bedford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedford, Leslie.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum exhibits--Psychological aspects.

Museum exhibits.

Aesthetics.

Imagination.

Creative thinking.

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional's vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embodied, imaginative experiences opens a new vista for those designing them. Using examples both from her own work at the Boston Children's Museum and from other institutions around the globe, Bedford offers the museum professional a bold new vision built around narrative, imagination, and aesthetics, merging the work of the educator with that of the artist. It is important reading for all museum professionals"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Contemporary Exhibition Theories. Chapter 1. Exhibitions as education ; Chapter 2. Alternative exhibition models

Part II. Constructing a New Model. Chapter 3. Story ; Chapter 4. Imagination ; Chapter 5. John Dewey and art as experience

Part III. Working in the Subjunctive Mood. Chapter 6. Creating and experiencing the exhibition medium

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-157) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781611323108

161132310X

9781611323115

1611323118

OCLC:

869066515

Publisher Number:

99958859305