Grasping the World

The Idea of the Museum
Herausgeber: Preziosi, Donald; Farago, Claire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2004, this volume recognises that there is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing, or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Revivals
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 804
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1196g
• ISBN-13: 9780367024345
• ISBN-10: 0367024349
• Artikelnr.: 59986888

Autorenporträt

Donald Preziosi is Professor of Art History, UCLA, where he developed and directs the art history critical theory programme, as well as the UCLA museum studies programme.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Creating Historical Effects. 1. The Fictions of Factual
Representation. Hayden White. 2. Psychoanalysis and its History. Michel de
Certeau. 3. Rome, the Archetypal Museum, and the Louvre, the Negation of
Division. Jean-Louis Déotte. 4. Poetics of the Museum: Lenoir and Du
Sommerard. Stephen Bann. 5. Telling Objects: A Narrative Perspective on
Collecting. Mieke Bal. Part II. Instituting Evidence. 1. Collective Memory
and Memoria Rerum: An Architecture for Thinking. Mary Carruthers. 2.
Science-Honour-Metaphor: Italian Cabinets of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries. Giuseppe Olmi. 3. Natural History and the Emblematic World View.
William B. Ashworth Jr. 4. The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and
Renaissance Genealogy. Paula Findlen. 5. Inventing Assyria: Exoticism and
Reception in Nineteenth-Century England and France. Frederick N. Bohrer.
Part III. Building Shared Imaginaries / Effacing Otherness. 1. Double
Visions. Homi K. Bhabha. 2. Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden
of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936. Donna Haraway. 3. From the Princely
Gallery to the Public Art Museum: The Louvre Museum and the National
Gallery, London. Carol Duncan. 4. Museums and the Formation of National and
Cultural Identities. Annie E. Coombes. 5. Creating Identity: Exhibiting the
Philippines at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Beverly K.
Grindstaff. 6. Performing Identity: the Museal Framing of Nazi Ideology.
Sandra Esslinger. 7. The Cosmic Theme Park of the Javanese. Shelly
Errington. Part IV. Observing Subjects / Disciplining Practice. 1.
Introduction to Museum without Walls. André Malraux. 2. Texts/Contexts: Of
Other Spaces. Michel Foucaul. 3. Power/Knowledge - Constructed Space and
the Subject. Paul Q. Hirst. 4. Museums: Managers of Consciousness. Hans
Haacke. 5. The Exhibitionary Complex. Tony Bennett. 6. Orientalism and the
Exhibitionary Order. Timothy Mitchell. 7. China in Britain: The Imperial
Collections. Craig Clunas. Part V. Secularizing Rituals. 1. The Museum of
Modern Art as Late Capitalist Ritual: An Iconographic Analysis. Carol
Duncan and Alan Wallach. 2. Animals as Cultural Signs: Collecting Animals
in Sixteenth-Century Medici Florence. Claudia Lazzaro. 3. Remarks on the
Collection of Rudolf II: the Kunstkammer as a Form of Representatio.
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. 4. Philipp Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolphus's
Kunstschrank. Hans-Olof Boström. 5. Museums in Eighteenth-Century Rome.
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny. 6. The Genesis and Early Development of
the Royal Museum in Stockholm: A Claim for Authenticity and Legitimacy.
Magnus Olausson and Solfrid Söderlind. 7. The Cultural Logic of the Late
Capitalist Museum. Rosalind Krauss. 8. Collision. Neil Cummings and Marysia
Lewandowska. Part VI. Inclusions and Exclusions: Representing Adequately.
1. Cultural Reflections. Moira Simpson. 2. Histories of the Tribal and the
Modern. James Clifford. 3. Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion.
Susan Vogel. 4. From Primitivism to Ethnic Arts. Rasheed Araeen. 5. Museums
are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India. Arjun Appadurai and Carol A.
Breckenridge. 6. Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on
Multiculturalism. Néstor García Canclini. 7. Our (Museum) World Turned
Upside Down: Re-presenting Native American Arts. Janet Catherine Berlo and
Ruth B. Phillips. 8. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: An
Account of Collaboration between Artists, Trustees and an Architect.
Jo-Anne Berelowitz. 9. The Identity Car Project and the Tower of Faces at
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Andrew Liss. 10. Where is
'Africa'? Re-Viewing Art and Artifact in the Age of Globalization. Ruth B.
Phillips.