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Harley Parker : The Mcluhan of the Museum.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Genosko, Gary.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2025.
Summary:
Genosko uncovers the legacy of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter, and explores his innovative concepts reshaping museums as perceptual laboratories.
Contents:
Front cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Typography and Beyond
2 The Making of an Epigrammatic Man
3 Uncanny Selves and Family Resemblances
4 The Hall of Fossils at the Royal Ontario Museum
5 Reordering the Dutch Gallery at the Museum of the City of New York
6 Regaining the Multi-Sensorial Museum in Translation
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the Author.
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Other Format:
Print version: Genosko, Gary Harley Parker
ISBN:
9781772128062
OCLC:
1457095377

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