| Description |
x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Cultural sitings |
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Cultural sitings.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction: of museums and memory Susan A. Crane -- Part I. Thinking Through the Museum: 2. Archi(ve)textures of museology Wolfgang Ernst -- 3. A museum and its memory: the art of recovering history Michael Fehr -- 4. Curious cabinets and imaginary museums Susan A. Crane -- 5. Geoffrey Sonnabend's 'obliscence: theories of forgetting and the problem of matter' An encapsulation courtesy of the Museum of Jurassic Technology -- Part II. Memories in the Museum: 6. History and anti-history: photography exhibitions and Japanese national identity Julia Adeney Thomas -- 7. Realizing memory, transforming history: Euro/American/Indians Diana Drake Wilson -- 8. Global culture, modern heritage: re-membering the Chinese Imperial collections Tamara Hamlish -- Part III. Collectors and Institutions: 9. The modern muses: Renaissance collecting and the cult of remembrance Paula Findlen -- 10. The quarrel of the ancients and moderns in the German museums Suzanne Marchand -- 11. The museum's discourse on art: the formation of curatorial art history in turn-of-the-century Berlin Alexis Joachimides -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars." "Representing a variety of fields - history, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarship - the contributors discuss museums across the disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture -- Historiography.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Memory (Philosophy)
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Museum exhibits -- Historiography.
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Museums -- Historiography.
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Memory.
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Museums -- History.
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Museums -- Philosophy.
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Museums.
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Culture -- history
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Historiography.
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Memory.
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Museums -- history.
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Museums.
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Philosophy.
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| Author |
Crane, Susan A.
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| LC no. |
99089384 |
| ISBN |
0804735646 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0804735654 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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