Post-Critical Museology considers what the role of the public and the experience of audiences means to the everyday work of the art museum. It does this from the perspectives of the art museum itself as well as from the visitors it seeks. Through the analysis of material gathered from a major collaborative research project carried out at Tate Britain in London the book develops a conceptual reconfiguration of the relationship between art, culture and society in which questions about the art museum's relationship to global migration and the new media ecologies are examined. It suggests that whilst European museums have previously been studied as institutions of collection, heritage and tradition, however 'modern' their focus, it is now better to consider them as distributive networks in which value travels along transmedial and transcultural lines. Post-Critical Museology is intended as a contribution to progressive museological thinking and practice and calls for a new alignment of academics and professionals in what it announces as post-critical museology. An alignment that is committed to rethinking what an art museum in the twenty-first century could be, as well as what knowledge and understanding its future practitioners might draw upon in a rapidly changing social and cultural context. The book aims to be essential reading in the growing field of museum studies. It will also be of professional interest to all those working in the cultural sphere, including museum professionals, policy makers and art managers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415606011
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178010239
Product Key Features
Author
Victoria Walsh, David Dibosa, Andrew Dewdney
Publication Name
Post Critical Museology: Theory and Practice in the Art Museum
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Museum Studies
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
278 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Victoria Walsh, Andrew Dewdney, David Dibosa
Genre
Art & Culture
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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