New museums and the making of culture
By: Kylie Message.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781845204532; 9781845204549
Subjects: Museums -- Social aspects; Museums -- Political aspects; Museums -- Philosophy; Popular culture; Political culture; Culture -- Philosophy
Description: Illustrated with a range of museums and museum spaces - from MOMA in New York to the reconstruction of Ground Zero, from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, this book reveals how the museum evolves as a cross-disciplinary, self-consciously political, and self-reflexive institution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing new museums, language and politics; title: The shock of the new : unity and the modern museum; title: History in the making : spectacles of empire, currencies of newness, consumption and citizenship; title: Culture in the making : public spheres and political urgency; title: Contested sites of identity and the cult of the new; title: Diversity and changing models : from new museum to cultural centre.