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Museums And Memory

  • Museums And Memory

  • Title

    • Cultural Sitings

  • Attribution

    edited by Susan A. Crane

  • Publication Details

    Book, Stanford University Press, 2000

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AM7 .M8815 2000  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    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 disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Notes

    • "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

  • Contents

    • 1. Introduction: Of Museums and Memory / Susan A. Crane
    • 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" / Museum of Jurassic Technology
    • 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
    • 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

  • ISBN

    • 0804735654
    • 0804735646

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