Reflections on critical museology: inside and outside museums

by Lorente, Jesús Pedro

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Title Statements

Full title :Reflections on critical museology : inside and outside museums / J. Pedro Lorente.

Summary

"Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-ranging account of critical museology. Drawing on an extensive range of examples from museums and across the museological literature, which are purposefully representative of very different cultural backgrounds, the book issues a plea for critical thinking in and about museums. The various institutions covered and the plural analytical standpoints offer a broad interdisciplinary approach by intermingling art history, anthropology, sociocultural theories and heritage studies. The result is not claimed as a universal or all-encompassing account but a subjective review produced by J. Pedro Lorente, an art critic and historian who has been writing extensively about ‘critical museology’ in different languages for many years. Lorente offers a fascinating synopsis of his ideas in this extremely valuable short book, looking inside and outside museums, combining practice and theory, whilst also relating both to the work of museum professionals and to a range of publications by academics, including those from other research fields. Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums will be essential reading for university students and academics working in museum studies and cognate disciplines, such as art history, anthropology and cultural studies."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

Notes

"Routledge Focus"--couverture.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (107 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781000585797, 9781000585810, 9781003263050, 1000585816, 1003263054, 1000585794
oclc:on1337567738
LC Classification:AM7
Dewey Decimal:069.01

Academic echoes of the label ‘critical museology’ and its referents -- Museums in question, self-questioning museums -- Variety and plurality in spatial and interpretive discourse -- Representations of historical legacies in times of self-reflexive museology -- Final considerations.