Chiel Van Den Akker, Martijn Stevens, Cecilia Lindhé, Christina Grammatikopoulo, Anne Beaulieu

Museums in a Digital Culture

How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful
Herausgeber: Legêne; Akker, Chiel

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new ways of engaging with art and history possible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9789089646613
• ISBN-10: 9089646612
• Artikelnr.: 44678693

Autorenporträt

Dr. Susan Lêgene is Professor of Political History at the Department of History at the VU University Amsterdam. Her research focuses on processes of inclusion and exclusion in colonial and postcolonial nation state formation. Dr. Chiel van den Akker is lecturer Historical Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Elementaire Deeltjes - Geschiedenis (Athenaeum 2019) and The Exemplifying Past. A Philosophy of History (Amsterdam University Press 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Touched from a Distance
Visual Touch
Breathing Art
Curiosity and the Fate of Chronicles and Narratives
Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums
Between History and Commemoration
From the Smithsonian's MacFarlane Collection to 'Inuvialuit Living History'
Conclusion
Notes on Contributors
Index