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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452960503321

Autore

Macleod Suzanne

Titolo

Museum architecture : a new biography / / Suzanne Macleod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-52783-6

1-299-46934-5

1-134-05355-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (561 p.)

Disciplina

727/.6

Soggetti

Museum architecture - Social aspects

Electronic books.

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

Telling stories of museum architecture -- "Hobson's Choice": art and grog in Liverpool -- "It is, of course, very easy to make merry over the Alderman in Art": the 1930s extension and renovation -- Ration cards, food hordes and art: occupation by friendly forces and the battle for liberation 1939-1951 -- Art (and architecture) in a city: ambition, illusion and revolution -- The social architecture of museums.

Sommario/riassunto

"Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent development of a body of research to understand the myriad issues. Museum Architecture: A New Biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery. Starting from a detailed discussion of the key issues in contemporary museum design, the book explores the role of architectural history in the prioritization of specific stories of museum building and museum architects and the exclusion of other actors from the history of museum making. These omissions have contemporary relevance and impact directly on the ways in which the physical structures of museums are shaped. Theoretically, the book places a particular emphasis on the work of Henri Lefebvre in order to establish an understanding of buildings as social relations; the outcome of complex



human interactions and relationships.The book utilizes a micro history, an in-depth case study of the "National Gallery of the North", the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, to expose the myriad ways in which museum architecture is made. Coupled with this detailed exploration is an emphasis on contemporary museum design which utilises the understanding of the social realities of museum making developed above to explore ideas for a socially sustainable museum architecture fit for the 21st century"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337728303321

Autore

Moss Geoffrey (Sociologist)

Titolo

Contemporary Bohemia: A Case Study of an Artistic Community in Philadelphia / / by Geoffrey Moss, Rachel Wildfeuer, Keith McIntosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-18775-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Sociology, , 2212-6368

Disciplina

307.140974811

700.103

Soggetti

Cultural studies

Urban geography

Municipal government

Cultural Studies

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

Urban Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Bohemia: Classic and Contemporary -- Chapter 3. The Fishtown/Kensington Artist -- Chapter 4. Maintaining Continuity With Bohemian Tradition -- Chapter 5. The Fishtown Hipster -- Chapter 6. Bohemian But Not Anti-Bourgeois -- Chapter 7. The Artistic Bohemian Lifestyle Community -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Going Beyond Ordinary.



Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an investigation and assessment of an artistic community that emerged within Philadelphia’s Fishtown and the nearby neighborhood of Kensington. The book starts out by examining historical and sociological work on bohemia, and then provides a detailed history of greater Philadelphia and the Fishtown/Kensington region. After analyzing the ways in which Fishtown/Kensington’s artistic community maintains continuity with bohemian tradition, it demonstrates that this community has decoupled traditional bohemian practices from their anti-bourgeois foundation. The book also demonstrates that this community helped generate and maintains overlapping membership with a larger community of hipsters. It concludes by defining the area's artistic community as an artistic bohemian lifestyle community, and argues that the artistic activities and cultural practices exhibited by the community are not unique, and have significant implications for urban artistic policy, and for post-industrial urban society.