Exhibition Experiments
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Beschreibung
Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considersexperiments with museological form that challenge our understandingof - and experience with - museums.
* * Explores examples of museum experimentalism in light ofcutting-edge museum theory
* Draws on a range of global and topical examples, includingmuseum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate ofconventional notions of 'object' and'representation', and the impact of these changes
* Brings together an international group of art historians,anthropologists, and sociologists to question traditionaldisciplinary boundaries
* Considers the impact of technology on the museum space
tackles a range of examples of experimentalism from many differentcountries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Israel,Luxembourg, Sweden, the UK and the US
* Examines the changes and challenging new possibilities facingmuseum studies
Autor*in
Sharon Macdonald
Themen in »Exhibition Experiments«
Art & Applied Arts Art History & Criticism Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik Museen u. Kulturerbe Museum & Heritage Studies
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"A challenging and fascinating book that theorizesexhibitions as media for encounter, enactment, experience, and thecreation rather than the transmission of knowledge. It opens up awhole new way of thinking about the potential of galleries andmuseums. Essential reading."
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, University of Leicester
"This scintillating collection offers the most originaltreatment yet of experiment as an appealing, provoking ideologythat has pulled together diverse critical approaches in the studyof modern culture. An absorbing read all the waythrough."
George Marcus, University of California, Irvine
"This book combines stimulating essays by establishedscholars who have pioneered research into exhibitionary practice,with exciting and innovative chapters by younger scholars. It willbe of equal relevance to museum professionals and the audiences whoparticipate in the museum experience."
Howard Morphy, Australian National University
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