A companion to museum studies / edited by Sharon Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macdonald, Sharon, editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 12.

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Philosophy.

Museums.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museum techniques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Summary:

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studiesExamines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectivesCovers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collec

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Bibliographical Note; CHAPTER ONE: Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction; The New Museology; Representational Critique; Identity Politics; The Museum Phenomenon; Expanding Museum Studies; Expansion and Specificity; The Plural Public; Policy, Practice, and Provocation; The Encyclopedic Struggle; The Compass of the Companion; Bibliography; PART ONE: Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts; CHAPTER TWO: Cultural Theory and Museum Studies; What is "Cultural Theory?"; Theorizing Meaning: Semiotics and Structuralism

Rethinking Saussure: PoststructuralismDeconstructing Saussure: Derrida; Cultural Politics of Difference and Identity; The "Foucault Effect" in Museum Studies; Museum Studies Speaks Back to Cultural Theory; Reading Museums as Texts: Cultural Theory and Textuality; Developing a "Theoretical Museology"; Postscript; Bibliography; CHAPTER THREE: Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums; Disciplinary Origins and Institutional Affinities; Cultures of Space; Materializing and Visualizing Knowledge; Institutional Critiques; Museums as Social Facts; Museums, People, and Cultures of Collecting

Museums as Agencies of Social ResearchDisciplinary Change and Museum Studies; Bibliography; CHAPTER FOUR: Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible; Art History and Museology; The Art Museum Object; The Object in Space and Time; The Subject in the Museum; Molding Material: The Masonic Idea of the Museum; Conclusion; Bibliography; CHAPTER FIVE: Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives; Origins and Foundation Narratives, 1836-1931; Divergences, Eclipses, and Renewals, 1932-1994; Post-narrative Museology, 1994-2005; Bibliography; CHAPTER SIX: Collecting Practices

What is Collecting?Collecting and Differentiation; Renaissance and Early Modern Collecting; Taxonomy and System; Modern Collecting and the Museum; Collecting Dilemmas; Individual and Popular Collecting; Reconfiguring Museum Collecting; Reflecting on Collecting and Re-centering Objects; Conclusion; Bibliography; CHAPTER SEVEN: The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory, and Museums; Progress and Timelessness; Remembering and Forgetting: World War II and Collective Memory in Museums; A Natural History of Preservation and Destruction; Bibliography; PART TWO: Histories, Heritage, Identities

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Origins of the Public MuseumClassical Antiquity and Res Publica; Renaissance and the Reformation of Civil Space; Enlightenment and Assertions of the Museum's Public; The Privatization of Public in Nineteenth-century America; Conclusion; Bibliography; CHAPTER NINE: World Fairs and Museums; World Fairs; Exhibitionary Complexes and G. Brown Goode; Complicating the Story of Exhibitionary Complexes; Showcases of Science and Technology; Visitors and Performers; Conclusion; Bibliography; CHAPTER TEN: Making and Remaking National Identities

Nation, Nationalism, and National Identity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 7, 2016).

ISBN:

9781444357943

1444357948

OCLC:

778339218