Analysing Museum Display

Theory and Method

AvChristopher Whitehead

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum displays. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks and methods, charting major contributions to the field and exploring their potentials and limitations.How and why should we study museum display, and what is its nature as a complex form of representation? The book argues that display is at once material, experiential, and political in producing knowledge and that analysis requires rigorous conceptualisation and careful methodologies. It provides a critical guide to existing concepts and methods, exploring how museum display can be understood using semiotic, narrative, cartographic, and spatial analyses, assemblage theory, new materialist and multisensory approaches, and theories of affect, emotion, and historical positioning. Alongside this, Whitehead presents key orientations for research practice relating to objectivity and subjectivity, historical and contextual awareness, and mixing methods.Analysing Museum Display will be essential reading for scholars and students of museology at all levels. The book will also appeal to museum curators and professionals who are involved in the production of displays and wish to develop a more theorised and reflective perspective on their own practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138545915

Utforska kategorier

Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Reseguider inom Reseguider
Designböcker inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Christopher Whitehead is Professor of Museology at Newcastle University, UK, where he is the current Dean of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Humanities at the Australian National University. He teaches museum and heritage studies and has trained generations of students in curatorship and exhibition development. He has published extensively on museum history, theory, and practice, and on the politics and experience of heritage and memory. He is series editor of Routledge Critical Heritages of Europe.

Innehållsförteckning

Walkthrough I: First Australians, Canberra, 2019; 1. Introduction: What is display?; Walkthrough II: Atrocity and trauma, Oslo, 2015; Walkthrough III: A world of shape and colour, Corfu Town, 2021; 2. Why analyse display?; Walkthrough IV: In the shadow of colonialism, Heldenplatz, Vienna, 2023; 3. Script, ritual, performance; Walkthrough V: Your face, Bratislava, 2023; 4. Text, narrative, exposure; Walkthrough VI: Atmospheres of deep time, London, 2022; 5. Affect, assemblage, atmosphere; Walkthrough VII: The web of life, Lyon, France, 2022; Walkthrough VIII: Momentous encounters, Verona, 2023; 6. Map, space, positioning; Walkthrough IX: A long-gone display, London, 1878; 7. Orientations for analytical practice; 8. References; Index.