Museum studies
Subtitle: an anthology of contexts
By: edited by Bettina Messias Carbonell.
Contributors: Carbonell, Bettina Messias.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
Subjects: Museums -- Educational aspects; Museums -- Philosophy; Museums -- Social aspects; Museums -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-599) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Museum/studies and the "eccentric space" of an anthology / Bettina Messias Carbonell; title: From The museum age : foreword / Germain Bazin; title: The museum : its classical etymology and renaissance genealogy / Paula Findlen; title: The universal survey museum / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach; title: Brain of the earth's body : museums and the framing of modernity / Donald Preziosi; title: The museum refuses to stand still / Kenneth Hudson; title: The mirror and the tomb : Africa, museums, and memory / Françoise Lionnet; title: Seeing through solidity : a feminist perspective on museums / Gaby Porter; title: Museums of "human suffering" and the struggle for human rights / Terence M. Duffy; title: At the Holocaust Museum / Alice Friman; title: To the citizens of the United States of America / Charles Willson Peale; title: Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary / Louis Agassiz; title: The development of ethnological museums / Robert Goldwater; title: Museums of ethnology and their classification / Franz Boas; title: The constitution of nature : taxonomy as politics in Jefferson, Peale, and Bartram / Christopher Looby; title: "Magnificent intentions" : Washington, D.C., and American anthropology in 1846 / Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr.; title: Ethnology : a science on display / Fabrice Grognet; title: Ambiguous messages and ironic twists : Into the heart of Africa and The other museum / Enid Schildkrout; title: Thinking and doing otherwise : anthropological theory in exhibitionary practice / Mary Bouquet; title: Museum matters / Gyan Prakash; title: What white publishers won't print / Zora Neale Hurston; title: From On the museum of art : an address / J.C. Robinson; title: Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities / Annie E. Coombes; title: Fracturing the imperial mind / Eleanor Heartney.; title: Presidential address to the Museums Association, Maidstone meeting, 1909 / Henry Balfour; title: Picturing feminism, selling liberalism : the case of the disappearing Holbein / Jordanna Bailkin; title: The architectural museum from world's fair to restoration village / Edward N. Kaufman; title: Addresses on the occasion of the opening of the American Wing, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Robert W. de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury, Elihu Root; title: Telling the story of America / Elizabeth Broun; title: Some thoughts about national museums at the end of the century / Roger G. Kennedy; title: The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford / James Fenton; title: Local museums / Sir William Henry Flower; title: Memory, distortion, and history in the museum / Susan A. Crane; title: Collecting ideas and artifacts : common problems of history museums and history texts / Thomas J. Schlereth; title: Melodrama, pantomime or portrayal? Representing ourselves and the British past through exhibitions in history museums / Gaynor Kavanagh; title: Reality as illusion, the historic houses that become museums / Monica Risnicoff de Gorgas; title: Artifacts as expressions of society and culture : subversive genealogy and the value of history / Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little; title: A sense of another world : history museums and cultural change / James Deetz; title: Mining the museum : artists look at museums, museums look at themselves / Lisa G. Corrin; title: Other icons : the museums / Le Corbusier; title: The museum as an art patron / John Cotton Dana; title: Aims and principles of the construction and management of museums of fine art / Benjamin Ives Gilman; title: Museum / Georges Bataille; title: Conclusion to The love of art / Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Darbel; with Dominique Schnapper.; title: Art and the future's past / Philip Fisher; title: Museums without collections : museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod; title: Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston, part II : the classification and framing of American art / Paul DiMaggio; title: Women at the Whitney, 1910-30 : feminism/sociology/aesthetics / Janet Wolff; title: Zero gravity / Maurice Berger; title: From The museum as muse : artists reflect: introduction / Kynaston McShine; title: Exhibiting mestizaje : the poetics and experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum / Karen Mary Davalos; title: Resonance and wonder / Stephen Greenblatt; title: Changing values in the art museum : Rrethinking communication and learning / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill; title: Secrets of encounter / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.