How can museums capture visitors' attention? And how can their attention be sustained? In this important volume, leading visitor researcher and educational psychologist Stephen Bitgood proposes a model-the attention-value model-that will help museum practitioners create more eff…
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This is an interdisciplinary book about objects and people in museums and galleries. It deals with the fundamentals of human experience of objects. Chapters explore some of the ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact.
Art museums, cases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values have been contested as never before. This engaging thematic …
The essays in this book are wide-ranging. They will appeal strongly to aestheticians, art lovers, and philosophers alike. The volume contains seven previously unpublished essays by Levinson, in which the author critically engages with notable contemporary contributions to aesthe…
"Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when museum mon…
Shows how the practice of naming Western paintings developed in response to the conditions of the modern art world and how titles have shaped the reception of artwork. "A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn't always have title…
"Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of…
The museum of contemporary art might very well be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiements, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twen…
"'Soft power' emerged as a concept in the late twentieth century to describe international relations based not on military or economic strength, but on influence. While the resources of 'hard power' are tangible--force and finance--soft power resources include ideas, knowledge, …
Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term "meaningful community engagement" betrays a myriad of contrary approaches an…
Traditionally, there has been an implicit acceptance of the autonomy of the artwork and a blindness to what Mary Anne Staniszewski calls "the power of display." In this groundbreaking examination of installation design as an aesthetic medium, Staniszewski offers the first histor…
The author views museums as complex entities in which both art and architecture are parts of a larger whole, in addition she views collections as ritual structures. In this perspective the Louvre museum in Paris and the National gallery in London are treated as examples of the t…
The question of the return of cultural objects has become the subject of increasingly intense debate in recent years. Exploration of the removal and the return of cultural objects from occupied communities during the last two centuries and analysis of the concurrent evolution of…
Auteur bespreekt het besluitvormingstraject ten aanzien van het museale binnenklimaat. Ook geeft hij aanbevelingen over de klimaatcondities in musea die nodig zijn voor het behouden van collecties.
Recent decades have seen migration history and issues increasingly featured in museums. Museums and Migration explores the ways in which museum spaces - local, regional, national - have engaged with the history of migration, including internal migration, emigration and immigrati…
