[PDF] The Porous Museum eBook

Author : Gabriela Nicolescu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1350196649

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The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. The museum has functioned successively as a museum of art, a communist museum, the headquarters of the communist secret police, and a museum of folk art. Gabriela Nicolescu traces the museum's spectacular biography and follows the transformation of its practices and aesthetics through three very different political regimes in the 20th and early 21st century: monarchist, socialist and post-socialist. Nicolescu's fascinating study starts with a focus on a dumped and smashed statue of the revolutionary figureheads Marx, Engels and Lenin in the museum's rear yard as an expression of the complicated journey of modern Romania. She considers questions of recycling and rupture, with some exhibits and practices carried over from one regime to another, whilst others have been discarded in favour of the completely new. Through this process, the museum can been seen as a microcosm of the wider nation state and the ways in which the past is remembered or rejected. The interdependency of politics, ethics and aesthetics that Nicolescu terms 'porosity' is an attribute of museums all over the world. Applying original anthropological research to key ethnographic museums in Romania and elsewhere in Europe, the book moves beyond regional and media stereotypes by arguing for the influence of local oral histories on national history.

Author : Karl Katz
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781468312836

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In the great tradition of Thomas Hoving's national bestseller, Making The Mummies Dance, the fascinating memoir by the curator who breathed life into museums

Author : Linda Nochlin
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN :

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"Presents the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Provides links to searchable database of images from the collection, posts contact information via street address and telephone number. Highlights the hours of operation, tour information, future exhibitions, and the art works. Profiles Joseph H. Hirshhorn. Discusses the history of the museum, its collection, and public programs."--Google books viewed June 24, 2020.

Author : Georgina Adam
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781848223875

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The private collector's museum has become a phenomenon of the 21st century. There are some 400 of them around the world, and an astonishing 70% of those devoted to contemporary art were founded in the past 20 years. Although private museums have been accused of being tax-evading vanity projects or 'tombs for trophies', the picture is far more complex and nuanced, as art-market journalist Georgina Adam (author of best-selling Big Bucks and Dark Side of the Boom) shows in her compelling new book.0Georgina Adam's investigation into this extraordinary proliferation, based on her recent visits to over 50 private spaces across the US, Europe, China and elsewhere, delves into the reasons behind this boom, the different motivations of collectors to display their art in public, and the various ways in which the institutions are financed. Private museums can add greatly to the cultural life of a community, giving a platform to emerging artists, supplying educational programmes and revitalising declining or neglected regions. But their relationship with public institutions can also be problematic. Should private museums step in to fill a gap left by declining public investment in culture, and what are the implications for society and the arts? At a time of crisis in the museums sector, this book is an essential and thought-provoking read.

Author : Viv Golding
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0857851314

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With contributions from key scholars in a range of disciplines, this engaging new volume explores the complex issues surrounding collaboration between museums and their communities.

Author : Mary Bouquet
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0857852116

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Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Museums uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in museums. Including selected, globally based case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this constantly evolving time machine, Museums will be essential reading for students of anthropology and museum studies.