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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144424703321

Titolo

Exhibition experiments [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-282-34176-6

9786612341762

0-470-69611-7

0-470-69536-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

New interventions in art history

Altri autori (Persone)

MacdonaldSharon

BasuPaul

Disciplina

069.074

069.5

Soggetti

Museum exhibits

Museums - Management

Art museums - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Exhibition Experiments""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction: Experiments in Exhibition, Ethnography, Art, and Science""; ""1 Legibility and Affect: Museums as New Media""; ""2 The Labyrinthine Aesthetic in Contemporary Museum Design""; ""3 Exhibition as Film""; ""4 Experimenting with Representation: Iconoclash and Making Things Public""; ""5 Walking on a Storyboard, Performing Shared Incompetence: Exhibiting ��Science�� in the Public Realm""; ""6 From Capital to Enthusiasm: an Exhibitionary Practice""

Sommario/riassunto

Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums.     Explores examples of museum experimentalism in light of cutting-edge museum theory  Draws on a range of global and topical examples, including museum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate of conventional notions of 'object' and 'representation', and the impact of these changes  Brings



together an international group of art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to question traditional disciplinary boundaries  Co