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Author Dewdney, Andrew

Title Post Critical Museology : Theory and Practice in the Art Museum
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (537 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Policy, practice and theory in the art museum; 1 The post-traditional art museum in the public realm; 2 The politics of representation and the emergence of audience; 3 Tracing the practices of audience and the claims of expertise; PART II Displaying the nation; 4 Canon-formation and the politics of representation; 5 Tate Encounters: Britishness and visual cultures, the transcultural audience; 6 Reconceptualizing the subject after post-colonialism and post-structuralism
PART III Hypermodernity and the art museum7 New media practices in the museum; 8 The distributed museum; 9 Museums of the future; 10 Post-critical Museology: Reassembling theory, practice and policy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Post-Critical Museology considers what the role of the public and the experience of audiences means to the everyday work of the art museum. It does this from the perspectives of the art museum itself as well as from the visitors it seeks. Through the analysis of material gathered from a major collaborative research project carried out at Tate Britain in London the book develops a conceptual reconfiguration of the relationship between art, culture and society in which questions about the art museum's relationship to global migration and the new media ecologies are examined. It sugge
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Subject Art museums.
Art museums
Form Electronic book
Author Dibosa, David
Walsh, Victoria
ISBN 9781136192685
1136192689