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:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Dream spaces, memories and museums; 2 What is memory?; 3 Remembering and forgetting; 4 Memory and life stages; 5 Memory in late life; 6 Remembering and the society of others; 7 The art of listening; 8 Oral history and museums; 9 Recording memories; 10 Working with testimony; 11 Dynamics of interviewing; 12 Collections of objects, or memories?; 13 Collecting memories and objects; 14 Reminiscence and the older adult; 15 Working with reminiscence; 16 Working with the memory bearers; 17 Bearing witness; 18 Memories, dream spaces and the visit

19 Dreaming the rational 20 Memory spaces, dreams and museums; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-189) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612013010

9781282013018

1282013017

9780567605047

0567605043

OCLC:

317073540