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Autore: |
Witcomb Andrea
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Titolo: |
Re-Imagining the Museum [[electronic resource] ] : Beyond the Mausoleum
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Pubblicazione: | Florence, : Taylor and Francis, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina: | 069 |
Soggetto topico: | Australia |
Cultural policy | |
Historiography | |
History | |
Mass media and culture | |
Museum exhibits | |
Museum techniques | |
Museums | |
Museums - Philosophy - United States | |
Museums - History - Great Britain | |
Museums - History - Australia | |
Museums - History | |
Museum exhibits - Historiography | |
Museum techniques - Historiography | |
Cultural policy - History | |
Mass media and culture - History | |
Popular culture - History | |
Museum Publications | |
General | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Re-Imagining the Museum Beyond the Mausoleum""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Unmasking a different museum: museums and cultural criticism""; ""Close encounters""; ""2 Floating the museum""; ""Anchoring tourism in maritime museums""; ""Sidestepping the rhetoric""; ""The displacement of the citizen?""; ""3 From Batavia to Australia II: negotiating changes in curatorial practices""; ""The origins of the Western Australian Maritime Museum""; ""Implications for the curatorial culture at the Museum""; ""Conclusions"" |
""4 �A place for all of us�? Museums and communities""""�A place for all of us�?""; ""Teaching �civic reform�: the uses of community galleries""; ""Representation versus production""; ""The role of history and its impact on the curatorial process""; ""Community versus museum: empiricism versus abstraction""; ""Dialogue and cultural policy""; ""Where to now?""; ""5 Beyond the mausoleum: museums and the media""; ""Materialism and the temple as a treasure house""; ""Objects and power""; ""From treasure house to touch screens: the displacement of the object"" | |
""Modernity, popular culture and journalism""""The museum and the popular press: an Assyrian tale""; ""Tales of Paris""; ""�A museum for the global village�""; ""Media impacts""; ""6 Interactivity in museums: the politics of narrative style""; ""Interactivity and museums""; ""Technological interactivity and its limitations: the Museum of Tolerance""; ""�Spatial� interactivity at the Australian National Maritime Museum""; ""Narrative as a design issue""; ""Understanding serial narratives: a media approach""; ""The politics of serial narratives in museums"" | |
""Serial narratives and history genres""""Dialogic interactivity at the Museum of Sydney""; ""A little history""; ""Creating dialogue""; ""Beyond the Museum of Sydney""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices. Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and Australia, Andrea Witcomb moves away from the idea that museums are always 'conservative' to suggest they have a long history of engaging with popular culture and addressing a variety of audiences. She argues that museums are key mediators between high and popular culture and between government, media practitioners, cultural policy-makers and museums professionals. Analyzing links between museums and the media, looking at the r |
Titolo autorizzato: | Re-Imagining the Museum ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-415-22098-X |
1-134-59889-0 | |
1-280-07022-6 | |
0-203-36102-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455653003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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