Museums For America
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Author | : Suzanne Loebl |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780393320060 |
A tour of America's most notable museums is also a history of the nation's art that highlights each location's top works while discussing the backgrounds of each building and featured piece of art.
Author | : Marjorie Schwarzer |
Publisher | : American Alliance of Museums |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Museums |
ISBN | : 9781933253756 |
Highly illustrated, exhaustively researched, and eminently readable, Riches, Rivals and Radicals describes the rise of the museums in America from the early 20th century to the early 21st--a story that parallels the historic changes in the United States. Through the decades, museums transformed themselves from cabinets of curiosity to centers of civic pride and prestige, stewards of who and what we are, our shared heritage, good and bad. The museum story is "filled with many notable and even some notorious characters," writes Marjorie Schwarzer, chair of the museum studies department at John F. Kennedy University. "How the American museum got to where it is today has required a long journey, sometimes arduous, often fascinating." Published in celebration of AAM's centennial and The Year of the Museum.
Author | : Amy Lonetree |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807837148 |
Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the co
Author | : John H Falk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 131541788X |
In the first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, Falk and Dierking present research findings to demonstrate people's motivations for visiting museums and how museum professionals can enhance their visitors' experiences.
Author | : Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2007* |
Genre | : Federal aid to museums |
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Author | : Steven Conn |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226114934 |
Conn's study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but he also draws attention to forgotten ones, like the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, once the repository for objects from many turn-of-the-century world's fairs. What emerges from Conn's analysis is that museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves. Using what Conn has termed "object-based epistemology," museums of the late nineteenth century were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced. According to Conn, not only did this mean a change in the way knowledge was conceived, but also, and perhaps more importantly, who would have access to it.
Author | : Reed Gochberg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197553486 |
'Useful Objects' examines the cultural history of nineteenth-century American museums through the eyes of writers, visitors, and collectors. Throughout this period, museums gradually transformed from encyclopedic cabinets to more specialized public institutions. These changes prompted wider debates about how museums determine what objects to select, preserve, and display-and who gets to decide. Drawing on a wide range of archival materials and accounts in fiction, guidebooks, and periodicals, this text shows how the challenges facing nineteenth-century museums continue to resonate in debates about their role in American culture today.
Author | : Michele Greet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2018-03-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351777904 |
Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.
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Total Pages | : 28 |
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Genre | : Humanities |
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Author | : Amy K. Levin |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2007-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0759113882 |
Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's self-identity and should be studied as seriously as more national institutions like the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.