The contemporary museum : shaping museums for the global now / edited by Simon Knell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knell, Simon J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museum exhibits--Social aspects.

Museum exhibits.

Museums and community.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815364924

081536492X

0815364938

9780815364931

OCLC:

1028893802