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Museum Studies
An Anthology of Contexts
“Carbonell's anthology is now a distinguished standard, useful as a sourcebook for ideas, teaching, even research. Like the museums she addresses, the collection is marked by its capaciousness of thought and attitude.” “Addressing topics as diverse as indigenous curation and technological and cultural interactivity, this anthology challenges museum studies tradition, arguing for the relevance of museums while celebrating the challenges of museum work.” “If the first edition of this acclaimed anthology was a landmark, this revised and enlarged edition is even better - with an impressive transnational coverage of topics, issues, and trends in historical and contemporary museum practice that will be essential reading for scholars, students and professionals.” “This new edition offers an innovative and timely perspective on locating the emerging themes and debates in museum studies today. An essential reader for both the scholar and student that combines in a single volume both classic essays and more esoteric, hard-to-find sources.”
- Bruce Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Steven Lubar, Brown University
- Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Christopher B. Steiner, Connecticut College
Bettina Messias Carbonell (Edited by)
9781405173810, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 March 2012
688 pages
24.1 x 18.8 x 3.6 cm, 1.315 kg
Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy.
Alternative Taxonomy xi Notes on Contributors xvi Acknowledgments xxiv Introduction to the Second Edition: Museum/Studies and the “Eccentric Space” of an Anthology – Revisited 1 Part I Museology: A Collection of Contexts 15 Introduction 15 1 From The Museum Age: Foreword 19 2 The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy 23 3 The Universal Survey Museum 46 4 Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums 62 5 Universal Museums, Museum Objects and Repatriation: The Tangled Stories of Things 73 6 Narrativity and the Museological Myths of Nationality 82 7 Museums, Civic Life, and the Educative Force of Remembrance 92 8 The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and Responsibility 97 9 At The Holocaust Museum 116 Part II States of “Nature” in the Museum: Natural History, Anthropology, Ethnology 117 Introduction 117 10 To the Citizens of the United States of America 123 11 Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary 125 12 Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification 126 13 “Magnificent Intentions”: Washington, D.C., and American Anthropology in 1846 129 14 From Natural History to Science: Display and the Transformation of American Museums of Science and Nature 142 15 The Development of Ethnological Museums 158 16 Ethnology: A Science on Display 163 17 Ambiguous Messages and Ironic Twists: Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum 168 18 Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice 177 19 The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory 189 20 From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum 199 21 The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford 206 Part III The Status of Nations and the Museum 209 Introduction 209 22 From On the Museum of Art: An Address 213 23 Presidential Address to the Museums Association, Maidstone Meeting, 1909 218 24 Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (November 10, 1924) 225 25 The Architectural Museum from World’s Fair to Restoration Village 230 26 Melodrama, Pantomime or Portrayal?: Representing Ourselves and the British Past through Exhibitions in History Museums 244 27 Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History 250 28 Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities 260 29 Museums, National, Postnational and Transcultural Identities 273 30 Architecture and the Scene of Evidence 287 31 Some Thoughts about National Museums at the End of the Century 294 Part IV Histories and Identities in the Museum 299 Introduction 299 32 Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum 303 33 Museum Matters 317 34 Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums 324 35 Mining the Museum: Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves 329 36 The Afterlife of Lynching: Exhibitions and the Re-composition of Human Suffering 347 37 Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics and Experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum 357 38 Indigenous Models of Museums in Oceania 373 39 Museums and the Native Voice 377 40 Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past 383 41 Emerging Discourses around Identity in New South African Museum Exhibitions 397 Part V Art, Artifacts, and the Deployment of Objects in the Museum 407 Introduction 407 42 Aims and Principles of the Construction and Management of Museums of Fine Art 413 43 The Museum as an Art Patron 421 44 Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art 425 45 Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein 442 46 Conclusion to The Love of Art 453 47 Art and the Future’s Past 457 48 Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West Africa 473 49 Women at the Whitney, 1910–30: Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics 478 50 From The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect: Introduction 491 51 Zero Gravity 503 52 Museums and Globalization 510 53 Changing Values in the Art Museum: Rethinking Communication and Learning 517 54 Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic Media at the National Museum of the American Indian 533 Part VI In and Beyond the Museum: Relationships, Interactions, Responsibilities 547 Introduction 547 55 Museums, Corporatism and the Civil Society 549 56 Museums as Agents of Social Inclusion 562 57 Partnership in Museums: A Tribal Maori Response to Repatriation 575 58 Interactivity in Museums: The Politics of Narrative Style 580 59 Speaking about Museums: A Meditation on Language 590 Selected Bibliography 599 Source Acknowledgments 615 Index 620
Bettina M. Carbonell
Germain Bazin
Paula Findlen
Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach
Gaby Porter
Neil G.W. Curtis
Donald Preziosi
Roger I. Simon
Paul Williams
Alice Friman
Charles Willson Peale
Louis Agassiz
Franz Boas
Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr.
Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain
Robert Goldwater
Fabrice Grognet
Enid Schildkrout
Mary Bouquet
Françoise Lionnet
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
James Fenton
J. C. Robinson
Henry Balfour
Robert W. de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury, and Elihu Root
Edward N. Kaufman
Gaynor Kavanagh
Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little
Annie E. Coombes
Sharon J. Macdonald
Catherine Ingraham
Roger G. Kennedy
Susan A. Crane
Gyan Prakash
Mónica Risnicoff de Gorgas
Lisa G. Corrin
Bettina Messias Carbonell
Karen Mary Davalos
Sidney Moko Mead
Gerald McMaster
Sean Kingston
Crain Soudien
Benjamin Ives Gilman
John Cotton Dana
Paul DiMaggio
Jordanna Bailkin
Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Darbel, with Dominique Schnapper
Philip Fisher
Malcolm McLeod
Janet Wolff
Kynaston McShine
Maurice Berger
Saloni Mathur
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Gwyneira Isaac
Robert R. Janes
Richard Sandell
Paul Tapsell
Andrea Witcomb
Stephen E. Weil
Subject Areas: Art treatments & subjects [AG]
