 Subjects -> MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (Total: 54 journals)
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- Janet Marstine, Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics, Abingdon:
Routledge, 2017, paperback £31.99, pp. xiv+211
Authors: Nick Cass
PubDate: 2018-03-31
Issue No: Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018)
- Review of Museums in a time of migration: Rethinking museums’ roles,
representations, collections, and collaborations
Authors: Klas Grinell
PubDate: 2018-03-31
Issue No: Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018)
- Sentimental Education. Sound and Silence at History Museums
Authors: Steffi de Jong
Abstract: Using an interdisciplinary approach, this article analyses the uses of sound and silence in three Polish history museums: POLIN – Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Warsaw Rising Museum and the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow’s exhibition Krakow under Nazi Occupation 1939-1945. It argues that in these museums sounds and silence serve a sentimental education. They are used both to transmit historical knowledge in a sensorial way and to affectively engage visitors. Diegetic sounds thereby generally serve the transmission of historical knowledge, whereas non-diegetic sounds are used as affective triggers. In tis way, a sonic immersion is achieved that induces visitors to feel as if they were in the past as well as inviting them to emotionally engage with this past.
PubDate: 2018-03-31
Issue No: Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018)
- Reproductions, cultural capital and museums: aspects of the culture of
copies
Authors: Gordon Fyfe
Pages: 47 - 67
Abstract: The concept of cultural capital is well known in museum studies from pioneering visitor research conducted and reported by Pierre Bourdieu in the 1960s. This paper examines the concept in the light of the criticism that, whilst it illuminates the dynamics of cultural consumption and inequality in advanced capitalist societies, its socio-genesis is less well understood. It is argued that the historical sociology of fine art reproduction provides an opportunity to (i) enlarge our understanding of its formation and (ii) to explore the cultural character of the copy and the sociology of the body. The paper draws on Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation, on Connerton’s distinction between incorporated and inscribing practices and on Bourdieu’s distinction between three states of cultural capital.
PubDate: 2018-06-03
Issue No: Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018)
- Embodied discourse in the bourgeois museum: performative spaces at the
Ordrupgaard collection
Authors: Rasmus Kjærboe
Pages: 65 - 87
Abstract: In a suburb just north of Copenhagen is Ordrupgaard. At the inauguration in 1918, it was arguably the best collection of impressionism open to the public outside France and the USA. This paper has two goals: First, to reconstruct and analyze the important yet little known original exhibition ensemble at Ordrupgaard, and second, to develop a view of the bourgeois art exhibition as a performative ritual. Building on ideas of exhibition narratives and visitor involvement derived from diverse work done within museology and museum studies, the paper proposes a close examination of how collective memory and performative embodiment drive exhibition experience. From this, Ordrupgaard emerges as an early example of a museum that offers its audience the possibility of a pleasurable enactment of middle class identity within a setting encompassing nature, art and architecture. The case of a small collection museum therefore reveals important mechanics at work within a potentially much larger field of institutions.
PubDate: 2018-06-03
Issue No: Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018)
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