Curatopia: Museums Future Curatorship
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How do the spaces in which science is done shape the identity of the scientist and the self-conception of scientific fields? How do the sciences structure the identity of the architect and the practice of architecture in a specific period? And how does the design of spaces such …
Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging--and the bodily access they imply--to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another's bodily experience and the effects--phy…
In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses, films like David Cronenbe…
In 1860 an aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is hanged in New South Wales, Australia. In the aftermath of the execution a Scotsman, A .S. Hamilton, will take bizarre steps to exhume the young man's skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phren…
This updated second edition reference work looks at recent developments in the field internationally and in terms of new theories and practices. The ecomuseum phenomenon has grown dramatically in recent years. There is now no one ecomuseum model, but a philosophy that has been a…
The ecomuseum phenomenon has grown dramatically in recent years. There is now no one ecomuseum model, but rather a philosophy that has been adapted and moulded for use in a variety of situations. With many more ecomuseums being established, the international appeal and reach of …