Museology and heritage studies Books
Museum Tusculanum Press Chachapoya Textiles: The Laguna de los Cndores
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£36.54
Aarhus University Press The Story of Danish Museums: 1909
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£15.20
Aarhus University Press RE_ACTION -- The Digital Archive Experience:
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the ways in which new digital media may enhance the experience of the art-archive. Taken as a whole, the new media is a vital component of a transdisciplinary and transformative field, a cultural landscape that is changing rapidly the conditions and domains of the archive and the (art)museum. How, then, should the functions and strengths of both archive and museum be shaped to meet those cultural and technological changes? When the Internet and world wide web became the place to be commercially, museums followed suit and established their own sites. These can be coarsely divided into two categories: purely utilitarian websites with information about admission, hours of operation, directions, and the current show. The other -- more ambitious -- type of website tried to expand the exhibition area of the museum into virtual reality. The idea sounds great on paper but seldom succeeds in reality. Such websites often ignore the physical and social experience of a museum visit. Curiously, when they are most successful, websites often compete with the actual museum, possibly reducing the number of visitors and diluting the effect of seeing art first hand. The book discusses the challenges of the archive and the (art)museum in the age of digital media. It is based upon documentation from a research project, MAP -- Media Art Platform, that drew upon the talents and collaboration of many institutions, artists, programmers, art historians, designers and others. The outcome of the project was presented at the exhibition TOTAL_ACTION -- Art in the New Media Landscape at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark, from October through November 2008.
£31.41
Nationalmuseet National Museums in a Globalised World: A
Book SynopsisThe role of museums as mediators is assuming central importance around the world as museums react much more intensely to societal needs than they did in the past. To tackle history and world cultures in this way rises constructive questions regarding one''s own identity and leads to a better understanding of the present in all its complexity and thus makes it possible to build a more solid future. Museums have gradually come to act in part as society''s memory, and through their educational efforts they contribute to the sustainable development of the world. The conference, The National Museums in a Globalised World address the question of national museums through international dialogue and exemplifies how the museum world has become internationalised. Modern Museums are global players in the cultural sector and cross-cultural co-operation is of growing importance.
£34.65
NIAS Press UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in
Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia's 36 UNESCO World Heritage Sites make a significant contribution to their respective country's national prestige and identity, international profile and tourism development plans. Yet, although much is known about some individual sites like Angkor and Borobudur, we know very little about all sites in comparative terms. This wide-ranging study explores how both cultural and natural sites are being managed, how they are coping with the conflicting pressures from the global, national and local levels, and points to best practices for their future conservation and development. Some 20 sites across seven countries in the region are examined and placed in a historical, political, economic, environmental and cultural context. The contributors also focus on the tensions that exist between the often competing interests, understandings and agendas of the various stakeholders involved in these globally important sites. Although the importance of World Heritage Sites carries their significance and influence beyond their borders in that they are part of national and international flows of people, capital, ideas, images and values, they are also defined, bounded and localized spaces within which there are encounters, exchanges and conflicts. The first volume to address issues raised by world heritage in Southeast Asia, it will be a key resource for academic researchers and for policy- and decision-makers in this field of studies. This volume on world heritage and tourism completes a trilogy of publications by Professor King on tourism-related issues. The two earlier volumes - Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions (2009) and Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia (2010) - were jointly published by NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press.
£33.15
University Press of Southern Denmark Icons of Longevity: Luxdorph's Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisLuxdorph''s collection has a triple source value in terms of the history of art, the history of civilisation and the history of science. On this background, both reconstruction and the availability of the collection hold specific contemporary and general importance for the illustration of very old men and women, the development of research on aging and the associated socio-cultural topics. Moreover, the collection represents an encyclopedic interest, the passion to collect and the origin of science-orientated collections, as they became characteristic in 18th century Europe.
£36.00
Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen Christian VIII & the National Museum:
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£12.59
Viella Editrice Vedere Per Credere: Il Racconto Museale
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£28.00
Silvana The Sacri Monti: Of Piedmont and Lombardy
Book SynopsisThe volume is dedicated to the Sacri Monti, the 'Sacred Mountains', of Piedmont and Lombardy - Varallo, Orta, Crea, Varese, Oropa, Ossuccio, Ghiffa, Domodossola and Belmonte - which have all been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2003. Made up of a complex of chapels in which episodes of sacred history are represented through paintings and life-size sculptures, the Sacri Monti are a complete expression of the Counter-Reformation age. Built between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century with the intent to educate and strengthen the religious sentiment of the faithful, they still fascinate for the decorative richness and the remarkable realism of the setting, as well as for the way in which they have been integrated into their surroundings. The texts and the rich iconographic collection highlight the extraordinary beauty and value of these jewels of history, art and nature. Text in English and Italian.
£23.96
Edizioni Musei Vaticani The Conservation of the Vatican Museums: A Ten
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£40.38
Edizioni Terra Santa Selected Works from the Collections of the Terra
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£93.10
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Museografia: Temi E Metodi Dell'allestimento
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£171.95
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Virtual Restoration 2: The Frescoes of the
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£175.75
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Cultura in Transito: Ricerca E Tecnologie Per Il
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£109.25
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Restauri a Pompei (1748-1860)
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£228.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider A Second Mona Lisa?: Challenges of Attribution
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£143.45
L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Gestione del Rischio Nel Settore Dei Beni
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£202.35
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Mercato Dell'arte E Le Case d'Asta:
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£177.34
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Risk Management in the Cultural Heritage Sector:
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£202.35
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Italia Musei Da Scoprire. Sardegna
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£87.40
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Italia. Musei Da Scoprire. Abruzzo
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£69.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Italia. Musei Da Scoprire. Basilicata
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£69.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Italia Musei Da Scoprire. Marche
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£69.00
Brill Feminist Critique and the Museum: Educating for a
Book SynopsisThousands of diverse museums, including art galleries and heritage sites, exist around the world today and they draw millions of people, audiences who come to view the exhibitions and artefacts and equally importantly, to learn from them about the world and themselves. This makes museums active public educators who imagine, visualise, represent and story the past and the present with the specific aim of creating knowledge. Problematically, the visuals and narratives used to inform visitors are never neutral. Feminist cultural and adult education studies have shown that all too frequently they include epistemologies of mastery that reify the histories and deeds of ‘great men.' Despite pressures from feminist scholars and professionals, normative public museums continue to be rife with patriarchal ideologies that hide behind referential illusions of authority and impartiality to mask the many problematic ways gender is represented and interpreted, the values imbued in those representations and interpretations and their complicity in the cancellation of women’s stories in favour of conventional masculine historical accounts that shore up male superiority, entitlement, privilege, and dominance. Feminist Critique and the Museum: Educating for a Critical Consciousness problematises museums as it illustrates ways they can be become pedagogical spaces of possibility. This edited volume showcases the imaginative social critique that can be found in feminist exhibitions, and the role that women’s museums around the world are attempting to play in terms of transforming our understandings of women, gender, and the potential of museums to create inclusive narratives.Table of ContentsIntroduction Kathy Sanford, Darlene Clover, Nancy Taber and Sarah Williamson PART 1: Stories Museums Tell: Language, Discourse and Representation 1 Toward a Racialised Gendered Museum Literacy Lisa R. Merriweather 2 Infinitely Obscure Lives: Depictions of Women at a US Historic Site Micki Voelkel and Shelli Henehan 3 Fashioning Women, Defrocking Patriarchy: Exhibition Stories Darlene Clover and Kathy Sanford 4 Hacking Language: Critical Engagement with Curatorial Statements Kathy Sanford and Darlene Clover 5 An Exploration of Discourses on Niagara Falls: Feminist Praxis in the Exhibition 1779 Ash Grover 6 Signs Images Words from 1968: From Duoethnographic Enquiry to a Dialogic Pedagogy Laura Formenti, Silvia Luraschi and Gaia Del Negro PART 2: On War, Peace and Human Rights: Feminist Perspectivising 7 Whose (Military) Heritage? A Feminist Antimilitarist Analysis of Military Heritage Sites in Canada, England, and Europe Nancy Taber 8 The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace: Pedagogies of Possibility of Social and Historical Justice for “Comfort Women” Sachiyo Tsukamoto and Sara C. Motta 9 Familiar Brushstrokes, Different Narratives: Re-Framing Embodiment and the Futurist Free-Word Aesthetic with Stories from Female Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces Lauren Spring 10 Courage and Passion and World War Women: Interpreting Two Exhibitions on Women in Canada’s National Museums Jennifer Thivierge 11 From Darkness to Light? Problematising Transformative Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Monica Drenth PART 3: Illumination, Provocation, Imagination 12 ‘ArtActivistBarbie’: The A/r/tographic Re-Deployment of Barbie in Museums and Galleries as a Feminist Activist and Pedagogue Sarah Williamson 13 The Critical Advocacies and Pedagogies of Women’s Museums Astrid Schönweger and Darlene E. Clover 14 A Room of Her Own: Interrogating Gender in a Historic House Museum Mary Pinkoski and Lianne McTavish 15 Cultures of Headscarves: Feminist Intercultural Adult Education through a Challenging Exhibition Gaby Franger and Darlene E. Clover 16 The Invisibility Cloak: Unveiling the Absence of Women Artists in the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea Emília Ferreira, Joana d’Oliva Monteiro and Sílvia Prazeres Moreira Index
£47.20
BIS Publishers B.V. A Spectator is an Artist Too: How we Look at Art,
Book SynopsisIs there anything more entertaining, inspiring and instructive than observing art? Yes, it is watching the people interacting with this art. This book may forever change your approach to art as it urges you to always consider both the work and the response. Because ultimately artists create, but we – the audience – complete the picture.A Spectator is an Artist Too is a visual essay about human behaviour around art: what happens when we are confronted with something immensely beautiful, challenging, or puzzling? Art historians only study objects, but how these objects are received is also worthy of our attention.The book also captures how art museums are changing, as they draw increasingly diverse audiences. The way the museum visitors responds to art is becoming more casual and creative – but also more swift or even banal. This shift is increased by a whole new breed of Instagram-friendly 'museums' worldwide, attracting experience-hungry visitors with immersive exhibitions defined by their Instagrammability.
£13.49
KIT Publishers Can We Make a Difference?: Museums, Society &
Book SynopsisTen upcoming young museum professionals from around the world gathered in the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam to discuss the ''crisis of the ethnographic museum''. What is the relevance of these former colonial museums in todays society? Can they make a difference? The ten papers presented show that they still do. In every part of the world individuals and institutions are trying to find innovative ways to make heritage of the past relevant for the present. From culture banks in Africa to museum cooperatives in Asia and collection libraries in Europe -- the different case-studies show that the ethnographic museum has a bright future, in North and South, as long as we do not cling to the term ''ethnographic'' or the term ''museum''. The conference Museums, Society & Development and this publication were produced by KIT as part of the EU-funded Culture and Development programme that was carried out by CulturCooperation e.V. (Hamburg, Germany) between 2005 and 2008.
£20.99
KIT Publishers Capturing Museum Knowledge: A Twenty Year
Book SynopsisIt makes sense for institutions to digitally register their collections or company information. The possibilities and applications seem endless. Office automation has been introduced in almost all museums in the Netherlands. However, some Dutch museums have not yet formulated an information policy or reserved a separate budget for ICT. ICT is still insufficiently integrated in Dutch museums as a policy. This publication describes how, in the course of twenty years, the Tropenmuseum has developed from a completely analogue institution to a museum where digitisation is central and forms part of all work processes. All the ups and downs of twenty years of automation and digitisation of the Tropenmuseum collections are described here. This publication can be used by heritage institutions as a case study in the field of digitisation of collections and possibly offer useful ideas for their own digitisation process.
£20.99
MER Paper Kunsthalle Conversation Piece: Collection Mu.Zee Ostend.
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£14.20
Leiden University Press Caribbean Cultural Heritage and the Nation:
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£107.35
Amsterdam University Press Installation Art and the Museum: Presentation and
Book SynopsisInstallation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analysing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conservation (authenticity, artist’s intention, and the notion of ownership) while exploring how these concepts apply in contemporary art conservation. Based on original empirical research and cross-case analysis, this ground-breaking study offers a re-examination of traditional conservation values and ethics, and argues for a reassessment of the role of the conservator of contemporary art.Trade Review"Installation Art and the Museum will become essential reading for scholars and professionals who work in the art world, along with anyone with serious interest in contemporary art and its display. It is an engaging account of what goes on behind museum doors as staff struggles to maintain a sense of authenticity with variable art. Van Saaze reveals the tensions between artists, curators, and conservators who re-create and alter these works for public display. Video requires reformatting and new exhibition equipment as technologies go obsolescent. Installation works change when re-designed for new gallery spaces. Artists challenge the notion of single authorship by transferring decision-making to museum staff or by distributing their role through collaborative practice. The art examined in this book is inherently unstable, and its care provides a rich context for understanding what happens when agreed-upon social practice in museums is disrupted by external change. Interdisciplinary scholarship at its best." Glenn Wharton, Time-Based Media Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art and Research Scholar in Museum Studies, New York University |"This book is a significant and innovative contribution to the literature. At present there is a lack of such a publication addressing in an accessible manner the emergence of contemporary artists’ installations within a museum context and the practice of those responsible for the display and conservation. This publication provides a valuable read for both those new to the subject and the more experienced reader. It is an important and timely piece of research which I believe will be both influential and widely read." Pip Laurenson, Tate, LondonTable of ContentsInstallation Art and the Museum - 2 Contents - 8 Acknowledgments - 10 Introduction Challenges of Installation Art - 12 Chapter 1 Key Concepts and Developments in Conservation Theory and Practice - 36 Chapter 2 From Singularity to Multiplicity: Authenticity in Practice - 62 Chapter 3 From Intention to Interaction: Artist’s Intention Reconsidered - 110 Chapter 4 From Object to Collective, from Artists to Actants: Ownership Reframed - 144 Conclusion Challenges and Potentialities of Installation Art - 182 List of Illustrations - 190 References - 194 Interviews - 214 Index - 218
£42.70
Amsterdam University Press Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and
Book SynopsisThe experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn't possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possible, asking questions like: How should we theorise the sensory experience of art and heritage? What does information technology mean for the authority and ownership of heritage?Table of ContentsIntroduction Chiel van den Akker and Susan Legêne Touched from a Distance. The Practice of Affective Browsing Martijn Stevens Visual Touch. Ekphrasis and Interactive Art Installations Cecilia Lindhé Breathing Art. Art as an Encompassing and Participatory Experience Christina Grammatikopoulou Curiosity and the Fate of Chronicles and Narratives Chiel van den Akker Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums Anne Beaulieu and Sarah de Rijcke Between History and Commemoration: The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands Serge ter Braake From the Smithsonian's MacFarlane Collection to 'Inuvialuit Living History' Kate Hennessy Conclusion Chiel van den Akker
£91.20
Lund University Press,Sweden Heritopia: World Heritage and Modernity
Book SynopsisHeritopia investigates the meanings of the past in the present, focusing on Abu Simbel in Egypt and other World Heritage sites. It explores and resolves a number of paradoxes: the past is impossible to preserve for eternity; all preservation implies change; preservation of one site normally means destruction of others; threats are important in the creation of heritage, but at the same time heritage may become a threat and threats can become heritage themselves; heritage stands in contrast to modernity and is at the same time part of it; both the increase and the decrease of modernity create heritage; and finally, heritage may be global and local at the same time. Heritopia will appeal to students and professionals in heritage studies and related subjects such as archaeology, history, ethnology and museology.An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesteropenhive.com/view/9789198469943/9789198469943.xmlTrade Review'Heritopia is an outstanding and thought-provoking book that not only offers rich accounts and concepts but makes an original contribution to debates around uneasy relations between World Heritage and modernity.'Michal Pawleta, Antiquity -- .Table of Contents1 The past is everywhere2 Truth, beauty, and goodness3 Chronic nostalgia4 The faces of modernity5 Heritage in the present6 Destination World Heritage7 World Heritage and modernityIndex
£23.75
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Gandhi Bhawan
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£19.00
Springer Refiguring the Archive
Book SynopsisRefiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.Table of ContentsIntroduction; C. Hamilton, et al. The Power of the Archive and its Limits; A. Mbembe. The Archives and the Political Imaginary; B. Peterson. Archive Fever in South Africa; J. Derrida. Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derrida's Archive Fever; S. van Zyl. A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive; V. Harris. Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form; A.L. Stoler. 'Picturing the Past' in Namibia: The Visual Archive and its Energies; P. Hayes, et al. The Archival Sliver: A Perspective on the Construction of Social Memory in Archives and the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy; V. Harris. The Archive, Public History and the Essential Truth: The TRC Reading the Past; B. Harris. The Human Genome as Archive: Some Illustrations from the South: H. Soodyall, et al. `The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present': Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa; G. Reid. `Living by Fluidity': Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving; C. Hamilton. Orality and Literacy in an Electronic Era; P. Mpe. Holdings: Refiguring the Archive; J. Taylor. Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts; S. Nuttall. Keeping the Self: The Novelist as (Self-)Archivist; R. Suresh Roberts. Electronic Record-keeping, Social Memory and Democracy; D. Bearman. Blackbirds and Black Butterflies; M. Hall. Biographical Notes. Index. Acknowledgments.
£208.99
Lannoo Publishers Another World
Book SynopsisWhere does reality end and fantasy begin? When can we talk about an hallucination? How do we bridge the gap between our world and others, and imagine or research what is happening 'elsewhere'? Another World opens the gateway to alternative realities. It shows how science and art have explored the unknown areas of the mind for the last two centuries. As innovative as it is offbeat, this story begins with selections from the oeuvres of four amazing creative thinkers, each of whom have generated a different world. From walking pencils to flying bicycles, materialised ghosts and optical illusions, nothing is too odd for this book and its curious insights into the human mind. Text in English, French, and Dutch.
£24.00
KIT Publishers Africa at the Tropenmuseum
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Van Nellefabriek Rotterdam
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) 1800 to 1900 - Rijksmuseum
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Uitgeverij de Kunst The Gardens of Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot
Book SynopsisAmsterdam Castle Muiderslot is not just the oldest castle in the Netherlands. It is a magical place, surrounded by water and vegetation. The castle gardens feature lots of heritage varieties: vegetables, herbs, fruit, herbaceous plants and flowers (some of them edible). The produce from the gardens was for centuries used to prepare the exquisite meals at the castle. And the gardens still produce a rich harvest every year. Muiderslot is also part of the Amsterdam Defence Line, a World Heritage Site. The castle gardens are open daily, offering visitors the chance to enjoy this lush part of our heritage.
£16.96
Uitgeverij de Kunst Developing Exhibitions: There is a method in this
Book Synopsis"This book immediately becomes the reference on how to create exhibitions in modern museums and how to work through the complexities of the exhibition development process, and it does so with humour, flair, and great understanding of the hard work involved." - Russell Briggs, Director Engagement, Exhibitions & Cultural Connection, Australian Museum "This method is an indispensable tool for all museum professionals: from director and curator to project manager and marketeer." - Wim van der Weiden Founder of EMA Developing Exhibitions describes an extensive in-depth methodology and practical framework on the development and production of exhibitions. It is a manual, with schemes and systems and a focus on the processes, and on the practice of developing content and storylines. As there is no other such clear-cut manual at present, it is already clear it will be used by several courses and programmes.
£28.79
Leuven University Press Worlds in a Museum: Exploring Contemporary
Book SynopsisTriumphs and challenges in contemporary museology Held on the occasion of Louvre Abu Dhabi’s first anniversary, the symposium Worlds in a Museum addressed the topic of museums in the era of globalisation, exploring contemporary museology and the preservation and presentation of culture within the context of changing societies. Departing from the historical museum structure inherited from the Enlightenment, leading experts from art, cultural, and academic institutions explore present-day achievements and challenges in the study, display and interpretation of art, history, and artefacts. How are “global” and “local” objects and narratives balanced – particularly in consideration of diverse audiences? How do we foster perspective and multiculturalism while addressing politicised notions of centre and periphery? As they abandon classical canons and categories, how are museums and cultural entities redefining themselves beyond predefined concepts of geography and history?This collection of essays arises from the symposium Worlds in a Museum organised by Louvre Abu Dhabi and École du Louvre. Contributors: H.E. Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa (Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities), Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak (Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi), Guilhem André (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Claire Barbillon (École du Louvre), Nathalie Bondil (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), James Cuno (J. Paul Getty Trust), Noëmi Daucé (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Hartwig Fischer (British Museum), Cecilia Hurley (Neuchâtel University / École du Louvre), Rose-Marie Herda Mousseaux (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Hervé Inglebert (Paris-Nanterre University), Henry Kim (Aga Khan Museum), Anne-Marie Maïla-Afeiche (The National Museum of Beirut), François-René Martin (Ecole du Louvre / Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris), Jean-Luc Martinez (Louvre Museum), Sophie Mouquin (University of Lille / École du Louvre), Souraya Noujaim (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Martin Pitts (University of Exeter), Manuel Rabaté (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Sylvie Ramond (Museums of Fine Arts and Contemporary Arts Lyon), Kennie Ting (Asian Civilisations Museum) Table of ContentsNew Identities of Museums in a Globalised World Foreword by Manuel Rabaté“It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done” Foreword by Mohamed Al MubarakA Universal Curriculum: École du Louvre and the Global Classroom Introduction by Claire BarbillonA World in Dialogue: Introducing Louvre Abu Dhabi Introduction by Souraya NoujaimPART 1Museums and GlobalisationIntroduction: L’Imagination au Pouvoir! Challenges and Perspectives for Universal Museums in the Twenty-First Century Noëmi DaucéGlobal History and the Art Museum James CunoDialogue Among Cultures: A Challenge for Museums of the Future Hartwig FischerUnity in Diversity: One Louvre Among the Three Louvres in the Twenty-First Century Jean-Luc MartinezPART 2Globalisation and SocietiesIntroduction: Universality, Globalisation, and Museums: Narratives of Material Cultures Rose-Marie MousseauxPreserving Pasts, Investing in Futures: The Developing Landscape of Bahrain’s Museums H.E. Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al KhalifaPremodern Globalisations: Cultural Connectivity and Objects-in-Motion in Ancient Worlds Martin PittsUniversal History, Global History, and Universal Museums Hervé InglebertPART 3Global/Local TensionsIntroduction: Local and Global: A Complex Field of Tension Guilhem AndréConnecting Canons: Critiques of the Western Canon in Recent Art Historiography Cecilia HurleyUniversal Museum, Global Museum: The Example of Lyon Sylvie RamondWhich Worlds Belong in a Museum? A Manifesto for a Humanist Museum Nathalie BondilPART 4Centre and Periphery Introduction: Centre and Periphery or Circulation and Dialogue? Sophie MouquinCentering Nationhood: Centrality and Peripherality in the Museal Culture of Contemporary Lebanon Anne-Marie Maïla-AfeicheInterstitial Identities: Reimagining the Asian Civilisations Museum Kennie TingCurating across Cultures: Globalising Dynamics in Contemporary Museal Practice Henry KimConclusion: Navigating Universality in the Museums of the Twenty-First Century François-René MartinAbstracts (Arabic) Abstracts (French) About the Authors About the Authors (Arabic) About the Authors (French) Gallery with Colour Plates
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Leuven University Press Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and
Book SynopsisMuseum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East Asian, South Asian, and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed.Collecting Asian Art locates Asian art across the twentieth-century in Central Europe via discourse and ideology, and discusses key collections and the way individual collectors built their networks. It thus explores transregional connections that developed through collecting activities and strategies in the prewar, interwar and postwar eras. Contributors also examine the personal connections between a group of Indologists from postwar Prague and modernist Indian artists from the early 1950s to the 1980s and also discuss the systematic archiving of East Asian art collections in Slovenia. A concluding conversation looks at colonisation and decolonisation from a broader perspective by approaching it through recent art historical discussions on the global dimensions of modernism. By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. Based on recent research, Collecting Asian Art reveals neglected sources while reinterpreting well-known ones.Contributors: Zdenka Klimtová (National Gallery in Prague); Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik (Polish Institute of World Art Studies); Partha Mitter (University of Sussex); Michaela Pejčochová (National Gallery in Prague); Uta Rahman Steinert (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin); Iván Szántó (Eötvös Loránd University); Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik (University of Ljubljana); Johannes Wieninger (MAK – Museum of Applied Arts); Tomáš Winter (Czech Academy of Sciences).Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewThe content of the work is fresh and resonates with the contemporary focus on global art history and transcultural studies. The transcultural relationship around museum collectibles between Central Europe and Asia during the height of the Cold War and rising nationalism is relatively unexplored and this volume aims to fill in the lacuna. - Parul Dave-Mukherji, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University This is a diverse but carefully compiled collection of essays by leading specialists in the field. The book should make a valuable contribution to studies of colonial and post-colonial entanglements in Central Europe, which have been growing dynamically in recent years. Joanna Wasilewska, former director of the The Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum in WarsawTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Translation 7Collecting Asian Art: Central Europe’s Transregional Connectivity Simone WilleTHE LOCATION OF ASIAN ART IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CENTRAL EUROPEThe Ideals of the East : Asian Art and the Crisis of Visual Expression across the Globe, ca. 1900 Yuka KadoiPicasso’s Meeting with Buddha Tomáš WinterCOLLECTIONS AND COLLECTORS, NETWORKS AND DISPLAYTwentieth-Century Cultural Politics and Networks : The Genesis of the Asian Art Collection at the National Gallery in Prague Markéta Hánová‘I Have Shown You Japan …’ Feliks Jasieński and Japanese Art Collections in Poland Agnieszka Kluczewska-WójcikNetworks of Enthusiasm for Japan Johannes WieningerSPOTLIGHT ON (COMMUNIST) ASIAWhen East and West met in the Heart of Europe : Vojtěch Chytil and His Contribution to Collecting Asian Art in Central Europe Michaela PejčochováBig Presents Maintain the Friendship : The Gift of the People’s Republic of China to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin), GDR, in 1959 Uta Rahman-SteinertSaved from the Furnace, thrown into the Cold War: Islamic Art in Hungary in the 1950s Iván SzántóSOUTH ASIA IN POST-WAR PRAGUELubor Hájek and Indian Modernist Art Zdenka KlimtováM. F. Husain’s Work in the Collection of the National Gallery in Prague : Connecting East and West Simone WilleTHE ARCHIVE: A REPOSITORYCollecting East Asian Objects in Slovenia : A Methodological Approach to Creating the VAZ Database Nataša Vampelj SuhadolnikCOLLECTING ASIAN ART: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREOf Centres, Peripheries, Values, and Judgements Simone Wille in Conversation with Partha Mitter on ‘Decentering Modernism’ and Modernist Routes beyond Western EuropeBiographies of the AuthorsIndexGallery with Colour Plates
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Amsterdam University Press Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences,
Book SynopsisThe Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their own traditions. This book focuses on that contested nature of heritage, especially through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts. It examines the effect of the internet on heritage-isation, as well as how that process affects different groups of people.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Mapping the Chinese Heritage Regime: Ruptures, Governmentality, and Agency Marina Svensson and Christina Maags SECTION I: Re-imagining the past: Contested memories and contemporary issues Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang’s Official Residence Susette Cooke From a Symbol of Imperialistic Penetration to a Site of Cultural Heritage: The ‘Italian-Style Exotic District’ in Tianjin Hong Zhang Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan SECTION II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: Top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations Creating a Race to the Top: Hierarchies and Competition within the Chinese ICH Transmitters System Christina Maags Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong Selina Chan Recognition and Misrecognition: The Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southwest China Tami Blumenfield Holy Heritage: Identity and Authenticity in a Tibetan Village Sonja Laukkanen SECTION III: Public debates in heritage work: Possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements Heritage Visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: Re-creating the City of Datong Jinze Cui Revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: Policies, Actors, and Debates Lui Tam Heritage 2.0: Maintaining Affective Engagements with the Local Heritage in Taishun Marina Svensson
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Amsterdam University Press Heritage and Tourism: Places, Imageries and the
Book SynopsisHeritage and tourism mutually reinforce each other, with the presentation of heritage at physical sites mirrored by the ways heritage is presented on the internet. This interdisciplinary book uses humanities and social sciences to analyse the ways that heritage is branded and commodified, how stakeholders organise place brands, and how digital strategies shape how visitors appreciate heritage sites. The book covers a wide geographic diversity, offering the reader the chance to find cross-cutting themes and area-specific features of the field.Table of ContentsContents Foreword- Frank Go List of contributors List of figures and tables 1. Tourism and Heritage Crafting experience through innovation Linde Egberts and Maria D. Alvarez 2. Tourism Conflicts and Conflict Tourism Experiencing heritage and identity in Europe’s age of crisis Rob van der Laarse 3. Heritage Landscapes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Huong T. Bui, Kaori Yoshida and Timothy Lee 4. Revealing and Presenting the Past(s) for the Public Fethiye Mosque and Museum as a cultural heritage site in Istanbul Mariëtte Verhoeven 5. Who Takes the Lead in Initiating Cooperation in a Cultural Network and Why? The case of a Rural Finnish Destination Arja Lemmetyinen, Lenita Nieminen and Johanna Aalto 6. Sustainability of Heritage Tourism Destinations A demand-based perspective on Cusco, Peru Begüm Aydin and Maria D. Alvarez 7. Localizing National Tourism websites The case of World Heritage Sites Emanuele Mele, Silvia De Ascaniis and Lorenzo Cantoni 8. Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through ‘In — Situ’, Customisable, 3D Printed Souvenirs Constantia Anastasiadou, Samantha Vettese Forster and Lynsey Calder 9. Tracking the Heritage Tourist Heritage tourism and visiting patterns in a historic city Karim van Knippenberg and Linde Egberts 10. The Construction of a Tourist-Historic Icon The case of the Palace of Westminster, London Linde Egberts and Renée Melgers 11. Conclusion Linde Egberts and Maria D. Alvarez
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Amsterdam University Press The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention,
Book SynopsisThe Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as it has evolved from the ‘heritage turn’ that can be dated to the 1990s. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches to regionally and topically diverse case studies, the contributors to this edited volume show how particular versions of the past are selected, (re)invented, disseminated and consumed for contemporary purposes. These studies explore how the Chinese state utilises heritage not only for tourism, entertainment, educational and commercial purposes, but also as part of broader political strategies on both the national and international stage. Together, they argue that the Chinese state deploys modes of heritage governance to construct new modernities while strengthening collective national identity in support of both its political legitimacy and its claim to status as an international superpower. The authors also consider ways in which state management of heritage is contested by some stakeholders whose embrace of heritage has a different purpose and meaning.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: (Un)Authorised Heritage Discourse and Practice Carol Ludwig & Linda Walton SECTION 1. (RE)CONSTRUCTIONS, (RE)INVENTIONS, AND REPRESENTATIONS OF HERITAGE 1.The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions Florence Graezer Bideau 2. Confucian Academies and the Materialisation of Cultural Heritage Linda Walton 3.From Destruction to Reconstruction: China's Confucian Heritage, Nationalism, and National Identity Yingjie Guo 4.Set in Stone: Continuity and Omission in Possessive Representations of the Great Wall Kristin Bayer SECTION 2. CREATING IDENTITIES: CONSTRUCTING PASTS, DISSEMINATING HERITAGE 5.Contemporary Fabrication of Pasts and the Creation of New Identities: Use of 'Open Air Museums/Historical Theme Parks' for Education and Tourism Carol Ludwig & Yiwen Wang 6.Creating Cultural Identity in China: Popularizing Archaeological Material and Cultural Heritage Patrick Wertmann 7.The Museum as Expression of Local Identity and Place: The Case of Nanjing Kenny K.K. Ng SECTION 3. HISTORY, NOSTALGIA AND HERITAGE: URBAN AND RURAL 8.The Role of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in the Construction and Indigenisation of State-led Political and Economic Identities in Contemporary China Andrew Law 9.Local Voices and New Narratives in Xinye Village: The Economy of Nostalgia and Heritage Marina Svensson SECTION 4. APPROPRIATIONS AND COMMODIFICATIONS OF ETHNIC HERITAGE 10.'Even if You Don't Want to Drink, You Still Have to Drink': The Yi and Alcohol in History and Heritage Joseph Lawson 11.'Ethnic Heritage' on the New Frontier: The Idealisation and Commodification of Ethnic 'Otherness' in Xinjiang Melissa Shani Brown & David O'Brien Afterword: Historicising and Globalising the Heritage Turn in China Carol Ludwig & Linda Walton INDEX
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Amsterdam University Press Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China
Book SynopsisThe drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding ceremonies are performed for the ethnic tourism industry in Lijiang, a World Heritage town in southwest China. This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other. The wedding performances in Lijiang not only serve as a heritage 'product' but show how the heritage and tourism industry helps to shape people's values, dreams and expectations. This book also explores the rise of 'romantic consumerism' in contemporary China. Chinese dissatisfaction with the urban mundane leads to romanticized interests in practices and people deemed to be natural, ethnic, spiritual and aesthetic, and a search for tradition and authenticity. But what, exactly, are tradition and authenticity, and what happens to them when they are turned into performance?Trade Review"Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China is a beautifully structured monograph possessing a reasonable balance between sharp political analysis and ethnography which demonstrates sensuous feeling and embodied practice." - Geng Li, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (2020)"Tourists come to Lijiang looking for love and romance, only to become dissatisfied and disillusioned with the place, leaving it to locals to come up with new forms of attraction and alterity. This is a story with which tourism scholars are also familiar, but it is a story that few have told as comprehensively as Yujie Zhu."- Tim Oakes, The China Journal, No. 83, January 2020"Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China presents a very intriguing and in-depth ethnographic investigation of the politics of intangible heritage and heritage tourism in China. As such, its contribution to the heritage and museum studies literature, including tourism studies, is significant and certainly stretches beyond the context of China and Asia."- Song Hou, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26:3 2019"This most sophisticated and provocative work weaves together intangible heritage, performance and authenticity. At the hinge of ethnic tradition and (post)modern individual consumerism, this book focusses on a leading edge of change in Chinese civilization."- Nelson Graburn, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley"Yujie Zhu has given us an incisively grounded account of how a centralized nation-state shapes local and minority heritage and channels it into the production of commodified sentiment." - Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Prologue: Somewhere in Time Introduction Lijiang Old Town and the Naxi Ethnic Tourism in China Cultural Heritage in China Romantic Consumption Authenticity, Authentication, and Customization Why the Naxi Wedding Courtyard? A Note on the Method Theatre of the Book Chapter 2 Stage Reconstructing a World Heritage Site The Development of Mass Tourism Becoming a Town of Romance Transforming into a Capital of Love Affairs (Yanyu) Creating a Cultural Theme Park Conclusion Chapter 3 Scripts Dongba as Religious Practitioners Transformations of Dongba Practices since 1949 Traditional Naxi Wedding Current Marriage Customs in Lijiang The 'Dongba Wedding' in the Courtyard Conclusion Chapter 4 Local Actors The Manager Mr. Liu The Dongba Fuhua The Adviser Prof. Ming The Moderator Mei The Dancer Chao Locals' Responses: Hope and Frustration Conclusion Chapter 5 Guests The Honeymooners Vincent and Lulu New Lijiang Residents Tony and Kitty He Gang from Naxi Mama Foreign Tourists Marina and Johnson Conclusion Chapter 6 After the Show Wandering Between Dream and Reality Embracing New Home Resistance, Coping and Departure Conclusion Chapter 7 Conclusion Romantic Consumption and Customization Global Significance of a Local Courtyard Epilogue: The Show Must Go On Bibliography
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Amsterdam University Press The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral
Book SynopsisThis book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhibitions and museums that display both national/imperial identity and the otherness that lurks beyond a country’s borders. What is revealed is that the same tension operates in these private and public realms; namely, that between identification and self-projection, on the one hand, and alienation, otherness and objectification on the other. In uncovering this, the authors show that the self, the citizen/society and the other are realities that are constantly being asserted, defined and objectified. This takes place, they demonstrate, in a ceaseless dynamic of projection versus alienation, and intimacy versus distancing.Table of ContentsI. Introduction: Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces and the Dynamic of Historical Liminalities (Dominique Bauer, KU Leuven) II. Liminal Domesticities 1. Panorama as Critical Restoration: Examining the Ephemeral Space of Viollet-le-Duc's Study at La Vedette (Aisling O'Carroll) 2. An Ephemeral Museum of Decorative and Industrial Arts: Charle Albert's Vlaams Huis (Daniela Prina) 3. Expanding Interiors: Architectural Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione (Heidi Brevik-Zender) (University of California, Riverside/ Fulbright Visiting Scholar Professor, University of Aberdeen) III. Bygone nations and empires under construction. The political imagination of liminality 4. The Land that Never Was: Liminality of Existence and the Imaginary Spaces in the Archbishopric of Karlovci (Jelena Todorovic) 5. The Theatre of Affectionate Hearts: Izabella Czartoryska's Musée des Monuments Polonais in Pu?awy (1801-1831) (Micha? Mencfel) 6. A Burning Mind, a Dream Space, a "Fantastic Exhibition" (Inessa Kouteinikova) IV. England and the British Empire. Civil society, civil service and the liminal position of transient spaces 7. An Ephemeral Display within an Ephemeral Museum: The East India Company Contribution to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 (Elizabeth Pergam) 8. Julia Margaret Cameron's Railway Station Exhibition: A Private Gallery in the Public Sphere (Jeff Rosen) 9. Paper Monument: The Paradoxical Space in the English Optical Toy Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, 1825 - 1843 (Shijia Yu) Index
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Amsterdam University Press Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and
Book SynopsisThis book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged, imagined, experienced and known. They therefore had a dimension of spectacle to them, as the volume demonstrates. Against this backdrop, the different chapters deal with a plethora of spaces and spatial installations: the Wunderkammer, the spectacle garden, cosmoramas and panoramas, the literary space, the temporary museum, and the alternative exhibition space.Table of ContentsI. Introduction. Staging the Temporary: The Fragile Character of Space (Camilla Murgia) II. The Department Store 1. "One need be neither a shopper nor a purchaser to enjoy": Ephemeral Exhibitions at Tiffany & Co., 1870-1905 (Amy McHugh and Cristina Vignone) 2. Enclosed Exhibitions: Claustrophobia, Balloons, and the Department Store in Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames (Kathryn Haklin) III. Spectacles 3. Jardins-Spectacles: Spaces and Traces of Embodiment (Susan Taylor-Leduc) 4. Parading the Temporary: Cosmoramas, Panoramas and Spectacles in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris (Camilla Murgia) 5. Portable Museums: Imaging and Staging the "Northern Gothic Art Tour": Ephemera and Alterity (Juliet Simpson) IV. On the Intersection of Literature and the Built Environment 6. The Elusiveness of History and the Ephemerality of Display in Nineteenth-Century France. On the Intersection of the Built Environment and the Spatial Image in Literature (Dominique Bauer) 7. The "Phantasmatic" Chinatown in Helen Hunt Jackson's "The Chinese Empire" and Mark Twain's Roughing It (Li-hsin Hsu) V. The Museum and Alternative Exhibition Spaces 8. "Show meets Science." How Hagenbeck's "Human Zoos" inspired Ethnographic Science and its Museum Presentation (Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel) 9. The Last Wunderkammer: Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Emanuele Pellegrini) 10. The Impact of Alternative Exhibition Spaces on European Modern Art before World War I (Nirmalie Alexandra Mulloli) Index
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