"The exhibition was one of the great nineteenth-century projects for improving the world. Combining the Victorian virtues of communication, cooperation, and competition, it promised to advertise the choice products of civilization to a receptive public. The Inglorious Arts of Pe…
"The exhibition was one of the great nineteenth-century projects for improving the world. Combining the Victorian virtues of communication, cooperation, and competition, it promised to advertise the choice products of civilization to a receptive public. The Inglorious Arts of Pe…
This ground-breaking book is the first to provide librarian's, archivists and museum staff with practical guidance to creating and organizing successful exhibitions. Drawing on international museum practice but applicable to any exhibition or display, the book sets out a time-li…
The international handbooks of museum studies
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies bring together original essays by a global team of experts to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the field of museum studies. Accessibly structured into four thematic volumes exploring all aspects of museum theory, practice, contro…
Artists have always experimented with the potentials film, video and digital technology. 'Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art' highlights the challenges these new multimedia works pose to the traditional ways of collecting, preserving and exhibiting art. In addition, it outlines…
Bundeling van bijdragen over de uitdagingen die multimediale kunstwerken stellen aan het conserveren en tentoonstellen en over het trainen en opleiden van professionals op dit gebied. Bundeling van bijdragen over de uitdagingen die multimediale kunstwerken stellen aan het conse…
Artists have always experimented with the potentials film, video and digital technology. 'Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art' highlights the challenges these new multimedia works pose to the traditional ways of collecting, preserving and exhibiting art. In addition, it outlines…
The history of technical exhibitions is traced from the end of the 19th century to the present day, with particular reference to the presentation of electrical invention and manufacture. Key factors determining the progress of electrical technology are described.
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…
"Art historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored what Mary Anne Staniszewski calls "the power of display." In this examination of installation design as an aesthetic medium and cultural practice, Staniszewski offers the first histo…
The author explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects - and people - are made to perform their meaning for us by the very fact of being colle…
Destination Culture deals with agencies of display in museums, festivals, world's fair, historical recreations, and tourist attractions. Drawing on the history of the avant-garde and the implications of its practices, Destination Culture attempts to theorize the artifact and the…