Museum Memories

1999

Boek; (XII, 325 p.) ill

Serie: Cultural Memory in the Present. - Met bibliografie

Studie onderzoekt de wijze waarop het museum vanaf de 19e eeuw het beeld van de geschiedenis als artefact ontwikkelde. De studie benadrukt het innerlijk tegenstrijdige karakter van het museum als instelling omdat het de levende geschiedenis omzet in een tijdloos raamwerk, historiciteit vervangt door historiografie. Studie houdt een pleidooi voor de herwaardering van de conceptie van historisch bewustzijn, artistieke identiteit en de culturele objecten van de moderne periode. - There is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing, or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This landmark 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 over the last fifty years. 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, two considerable critics, who write with the edge and enthusiasm of art historians who have spent their lives working with museums. Grasping the World is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of art history and museum studies.

Located in: MUSEUMBELEID

ISBN: 0-8047-3604-9

VUBIS: 2:84190