Museum making : narratives, architectures, exhibitions / / edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Laura Hourston Hanks and Jonathan Hale

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 727/.6
• Soggetto topico: Museum architecture; Communication in architecture
• Altri autori: HaleJonathan Hourston HanksLaura MacleodSuzanne
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Museum Making; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Museum making: the place of narrative: Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale and Suzanne MacLeod; Part I: Narrative, space, identity; Introduction; 1. Imaginary museums: what mainstream museums can learn from them: Rachel Morris; 2. Staging exhibitions: atmospheres of imagination: Greer Crawley; 3. Writing spatial stories: textual narratives in the museum: Laura Hourston Hanks ; 4. Athens, London or Bilbao? Contested narratives of display in the Parthenon galleries of the British Museum: Christopher R. Marshall5. This magical place: the making of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the politics of landscape, art and narrative: Suzanne MacLeod; 6. Narrative space: three post-apartheid museums reconsidered: Nic Coetzer; 7. The museum as narrative witness: heritage performance and the production of narrative space: Jenny Kidd; 8. Beyond narrative: designing epiphanies: Lee H. Skolnick; 9. Place, time and memory: Stephen Greenberg; Part II: Narrative, perception, embodiment ; Introduction10. Scales of narrativity: Tricia Austin; 11. City as museum, museum as city: mediating the everyday and special narratives of life: Dorian Wiszniewski; 12. Narrative transformations and the architectural artefact: Stephen Alexander Wischer; 13. Architecture for the nation's memory: history, art, and the halls of Norway's national gallery: Mattias Ekman; 14. Arsenic, wells and herring curing: making new meanings in an old fish factory: Sheila Watson, Rachel Kirk and James Steward; 15. Accessing Estonian memories: building narratives through game form: Candice Hiu-Lam Lau ; 16. Narrative landscapes: James Furse-Roberts17. Narrative environments and the paradigm of embodiment: Jonathan Hale; Part III: Narrative, media, mediation; Introduction; 18. Narrative space: The Book of Lies: Paola Zellner; 19. Productive exhibitions: looking backwards to go forward: Florian Kossak; 20. Incomplete stories: Annabel Fraser and Hannah Coulson; 21. In the museum's ruins: staging the passage of time: Michaela Giebelhausen; 22. Meaningful encounters with disrupted narratives: artists' interventions as interpretive strategies: Claire Robins and Miranda Baxter ; 23. Where do you want the label? The roles and possibilities of exhibition graphics: Jona Piehl and Suzanne MacLeod24. The narrative of technology: understanding the effect of New Media artwork in the museum: Peter Ride; 25. The thick present: architecture, narration and film: Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe and Nathalie Weadick; 26. A narrative journey: creating storytelling environments with architecture and digital media: Tom Duncan and Noel McCauley; Select bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums.Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potentia
• Altri titoli varianti: Narratives, architectures, exhibitions
• Titolo autorizzato: Museum making
• ISBN: 1-136-44574-9; 1-136-44575-7; 0-203-12457-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778919303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Museum meanings.