Grasping the world : the idea of the museum

by: Preziosi, D. Farago, C.

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Grasping the world : the idea of the museum

Authors: Donald Preziosi, Claire J. Farago

Summary:The 41 essays in 'Grasping the world' deal with historical material spanning over half a millennium, from the medieval and early modern periods to the beginning of the twenty-first century. All texts included have theoretical and historiographical import. The anthology is organized thematically rather than chronologically and includes cross-indexes

xxiv, 779 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:
The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White
Psychoanalysis and its history / Michel de Certeau
Rome, the archetypal museum, and the Louvre, the negation of division / Jean-Louis Déotte
Poetics of the museum : Lenoir and Du Sommerard / Stephen Bann
Telling objects : a narrative perspective on collecting / Mieke Bal
Collective memory and memoria rerum : an architecture for thinking / Mary Carruthers
Science-honour-metaphor : Italian cabinets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Giuseppe Olmi
Natural history and the emblematic world view / William B. Ashworth Jr
The museum : its classical etymology and Renaissance genealogy / Paula Findlen
Inventing Assyria : exoticism and reception in nineteenth-century England and France / Frederick N. Bohrer
Double visions / Homi K. Bhabha
Teddy bear patriarchy : taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway
From the princely gallery to the public art museum : the Louvre museum and the National Gallery, London / Carol Duncan
Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities / Annie E. Coombes
Creating identity : exhibiting the Philippines at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Beverly K. Grindstaff
Performing identity : the museal framing of Nazi ideology / Sandra Esslinger
The cosmic theme park of the Javanese / Shelly Errington
Introduction to museum without walls / André Malraux
Texts/contexts : of other spaces / Michel Foucault
Power/knowledge
constructed space and the subject / Paul Q. Hirst
Museums : managers of consciousness / Hans Haacke
The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett
Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell
China in Britain : the imperial collections / Craig Clunas
The museum of modern art as late capitalist ritual : an iconographical analysis / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach
Animals as cultural signs : collecting animals in sixteenth-century Medici Florence / Claudia Lazzaro
Remarks on the collection of Rudolf II : the Kunstkammer as a form of representation / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Philip Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolfus's Kunstschrank / Hans-Olof Boström
Museums in eighteenth-century Rome / Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny
The genesis and early development of the Royal Museum in Stockholm : a claim for authenticity and legitimacy / Magnus Olausson and Solfrid Söderlind
The cultural logic of the late capitalist museum / Rosalind Krauss
Collision / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
Cultural reflections / Moira Simpson
Histories of the tribal and the modern / James Clifford
Always true to the object, in our fashion / Susan Vogel
From primitivism to ethnic arts / Rasheed Araeen
Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge
Remaking passports : visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Néstor García Canclini
Our (museum) world turned upside down : re-presenting Native American arts / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles : an account of collaboration between artists, trustees and an architect / Jo-Anne Berelowitz
The identity card project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Andrea Liss
Where is 'Africa'? : re-viewing art and artifact in the age of globalization / Ruth B. Philips

Subjects:
Aspect social
Bien culturel
Cultural property Protection
Culture
Curatorship
History
Identity
Museumkunde
Museums
Museums Historiography
Museums Philosophy
Museums Social aspects
Museumsbau
Museumskunde
Musée
Musées Aspect social
Musées Historiographie
Musées Philosophie
Nationalism
Patrimoine culturel Protection
Philosophie
Philosophy
Social aspects
Sociology

There is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This anthology aims to make strange the very existence of museums and to plot a critical, historical and ethical understanding of their origins and history. A radical selection of key texts introduces the reader to the intense investigation of the modern European idea of the museum that has taken place since the 1950s. Texts first published in journals and books are brought together in one volume with up-to-the-minute and specially commissioned pieces by leading administrators, curators and art historians. The selections are organized by key themes that map the evolution of the debate and are introduced by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago.

Grasping the world : the idea of the museum

by: Preziosi, D. Farago, C.

• ISBN-13: 9780754608356 / 978-0-7546-0835-6
• ISBN-03: 0754608352 / 0-7546-0835-2
• Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2004

Price: 98,00 EURO

1 copy in stock