Design objects and the museum
By: edited by Liz Farrelly and Joanna Weddell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781472577238; 9781472577221
Subjects: Art museums; Social aspects; Decorative arts; Museums; Design; Curatorship; Collectors and collecting; History
Description: "Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists to consider the place of contemporary design objects within museums. Contributors draw on a wide range of 20th century and contemporary examples from international museums to consider how design objects have been curated and displayed within and beyond the museum. The book continues contemporary global debates on the ways in which design museums engage and educate their public. Chapters are grouped into three thematic sections addressing The Canon and Design in the Museum; Positioning Design within and Beyond the Museum; and Interpretation and the Challenge of Design, with chapters exploring museological practice and issues, the roles people play in creating meaning, and the challenge contemporary design has in producing interpretation and learning within the museum"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Jonathan Woodham; title: Introduction / Joanna Weddell and Liz Farrelly; title: pt. I. The canon and design in the museum. 1. Exhibiting 'the taste of everyday things': Kenneth Clark and CEMA's wartime exhibitions of design / Sue Breakell ; 2. The ethos of the Victoria & Albert Museum Circulation Department 1947-1960 / Joanna Weddell ; 3. 'I would suggest that you should not think of the Design Centre as a museum; it is a live, active, moving thing': Designs of the Year, 1957 / Ness Wood ; 4. Designing for a new Nigeria: Hayes Textiles Limited and the British manufacture of gele in the postcolonial period / Nicola Stylianou ; 5. Towards an uncensored history of design: Ideal Homes and Constance Spry at the Design Museum, London / Deborah Sugg Ryan ; 6. Ghosts and dancers: immaterials and the musuem / Jana Scholze; title: pt. II. Positioning design within and beyond the museum. 7. Indian living cultures: collected, exhibited and performed / Megha Rajguru and Nicola Ashmore ; 8. Triennale Design Museum: an evolving curatorial project / Virginia Lucarelli ; 9. Gallery envy and contingent autonomy: exhibiting design art / Damon Taylor ; 10. Contemporary designers, cultural diplomacy and the museum without walls / Gareth Williams ; 11. Curating critical design: an embodied criticality / Gillian Russell; title: pt. III. Interpretation and the challenge of design. 12. Design, politics and museum presentation / Marianne Lamonaca ; 13. You are here, we are there: tracing NID's design histories / Tom Wilson ; 14. Just what is it that makes curating design so different, so appealing? / Helen Charman ; 15. Design and museum interpretation: contemporary characteristics and practice / Jason Cleverly ; 16. Interactions in the museum: design culture salons at the Victoria and Albert Museum / Leah Armstrong and Guy Julier ; 17. Museums online and digital: some innovations and implications / Liz Farrelly; title: Closing comments / Liz Farrelly and Joanna Weddell.