The contemporary museum : shaping museums for the global now /

The contemporary museum : shaping museums for the global now / edited by Simon Knell.

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"The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose...

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Other Authors: Knell, Simon J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019]
Subjects:
Museums.
Museums > Social aspects.
Museum exhibits > Social aspects.
Museums and community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: museums for the global contemporary / Simon Knell
  • Modernisms: curating art's past in the global present / Simon Knell
  • Indigenisation: reconceptualising museology / Conal McCarthy
  • Islam: Islamic art, the Islamic world , and museums / John Reeve
  • Xenophobia: museums, refugees and fear of the other / Andrea Witcomb
  • Diplomacy: museums and international exhibitions / Da Kong
  • Transience: curating ephemeral art / Stacy Boldrick
  • Performances: contemporary encounters in historic spaces / Romina Delia
  • Transhistoricism: using the past to critique the present / Annette Loeseke
  • Pasts: authoring national histories in the contemporary city / Cintia Velázquez Marroni
  • Disability: museums and our understandings of difference / Richard Sandell
  • Contact: framing prostitution in a city museum / Annemarie de Wildt
  • Small wins: tactics for the contemporary museum / Viviane Gosselin
  • Anxiety: unease in the museum / Jennifer Walklate.

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