Museums and the ancient Middle East : curatorial practice and audiences / edited by Geoff Emberling and Lucas P. Petit.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emberling, Geoff, editor.

Petit, Lucas Pieter, editor.

Series:

Routledge research in museum studies ; 11.

Routledge research in museum studies ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Ancient--Middle East--Exhibitions.

Antiquities.

Art, Ancient.

Middle East--Antiquities--Exhibitions.

Museum exhibits.

Art museums.

Antiquities--Exhibitions.

Middle East.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxii, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Bringing together the latest thinking from a diverse and international group of leading curators, the book presents the views of those working in one particular community of practice: the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient Middle East. Drawing upon a remarkable group of case studies from many of the world's leading museums, including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, this volume describes what curators have done in order to present a previously unseen side of the Middle East region and its history. Highlighting overlaps and distinctions between the practices of national, art and University museums around the globe, the contributors to the volume are also able to offer a unique insight into the types of challenges and opportunities facing the 21st-century curator. Museums and the Ancient Middle East should be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, archaeology, the ancient Near East, Middle Eastern studies and ancient history. The unique insights provided by curators active in the field ensure that the book should also be essential reading for museum practitioners around the globe.

Contents:

Introductory

Curating the ancient Middle East / Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit

Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East : a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum / Paul Collins

Ancient "art" in the white cube? or how contemporary art creates ancient "art"? / Pedro Azara and Marc Marín

Perspectives from national museums

170 years of curatorial practices and audiences at the Louvre : exhibiting ancient Middle Eastern antiquities from 1847 to 2017 / Ariane Thomas

Gallery 55 at the British Museum : Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC / Irving Finkel and Alexandra Fletcher

Unlocking architectures? communicating cultures : ancient Middle Eastern worlds in the Vorderasiatisches Museum / Lutz Martin

And now for something completely different? Tthe renewal of the ancient Middle Eastern Gallery in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities / Lucas P. Petit

The Jordan Museum : storyteller of land and people / Yosha Alamri and Jihad Kafafi

Perspectives from art museums

Exhibiting interaction : displaying the arts of the ancient Middle East in their broader context / Joan Aruz and Yelena Rakic

Negotiations in museum practice : a reinstalled gallery of ancient Middle Eastern art at the Detroit Institute of Arts / Swarupa Anila and Geoff Emberling

An archaeological exhibition without archaeology? Joan Miró looks at Mesopotamian masterpieces / Pedro Azara and Marc Marín

Perspectives from university museums

"We are not an art museum" : presenting archaeological narratives at the Oriental Institute / John D.M. Green

The Middle East Gallery at the Penn Museum : a curator's reflections on challenges and opportunities / Holly Pittman

The archaeological museum of the American University of Beirut and its educational role : a case study / Leila Badre

Beyond display : curriculum and community engagement with ancient Middle Eastern collections in a university museum / Andrew Jamieson and Annelies van de Ven

Commentary

Exhibiting ancient Middle Eastern art in America / Peter Lacovara.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Museums and the ancient Middle East.

ISBN:

9780815349723

0815349726

OCLC:

1044776283