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The Thing about Museums
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Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation
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Artikel-Nr:
9780815346760
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.12.2017
Seiten:
416
Autor:
Sandra Dudley
Gewicht:
581 g
Format:
234x156x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Sandra Dudley is Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Recent books include Materialising Exile: material culture and embodied experience among Karenni refugees in Thailand (Berghahn 2010) and Museum Materialities (ed., Routledge 2010).
The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays discussing how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects are utilised within particular representational strategies and forms, and the challenges and opportunities presented by using objects to communicate difficult and contested matters.
List of illustrations List of contributors 1. Introduction: museums and things Part I: Objects and their creation in the museum Part II Visitors' engagements with museum objects Part III The uses of objects in museum representations Part IV Objects and difficult subjects Afterword: A conversation with Sue Pearce