ART -- Museum Studies

Curatopia: museums and the future of curatorship

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What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the cu…

Museums in the new mediascape: transmedia, participation, ethics

by Kidd, Jenny

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"The museum today faces complex questions of definition, representation, ethics, aspiration and economic survival. Alongside this we see burgeoning use of an array of new media including increasingly dynamic web portals and content, digital archives, social networks, blogs and o…

Collecting the new: museums and contemporary art

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Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects…

The art of museum exhibitions: how story and imagination create aesthetic experi…

by Bedford, Leslie

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Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional's vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embod…

The art of museum exhibitions: how story and imagination create aesthetic experi…

by Bedford, Leslie

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"Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional's vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embo…

The art of museum exhibitions: how story and imagination create aesthetic experi…

by Bedford, Leslie

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"Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional's vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embo…

The art of museum exhibitions: how story and imagination create aesthetic experi…

by Bedford, Leslie

0 Type: Book

"Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional's vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embo…

The art of museum exhibitions: how story and imagination create aesthetic experi…

by Bedford, Leslie

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"Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional's vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embo…

With Eclat: the Boston Athenaeum and the origin of the Museum…

by Hirayama, Hina

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A detailed history of the Boston Athenaeum's historic role in the founding of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art

by Karlstrom, Paul J., Karlstrom, Ann

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This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz's own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates key historical and…