Main entry:

Storrie, Calum.

Title & Author:

The delirious museum : a journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas / Calum Storrie.

Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Description:

viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Louvre: An absence -- The endless museum: A 'house of dreams' -- Beneath the museum, the street -- The totalmuseum: Exhibitions/experiments -- This is a not museum -- From Soane to Soane -- The mausoleum: Where death ends -- Carlo Scarpa: The labyrinth in time -- The spiral in ruins -- After the wall: Studio Libeskind -- Los Angeles: The hidden museum -- Las Vegas: The past sure is tense.

Summary:

Providing an interpretation of the relationship between the museum and the city in the 21st century, this work presents an original view of the idea of the museum, proposing that it is, or should be, both a repository of the artefacts of the past and a continuation of the city street in the present.

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ISBN:

9781845115098 (pbk.)
1845115090 (pbk.)

Subject:

Museums Philosophy.
Museums Location.
Musées Philosophie.
Musées Localisation.
Konstsamlingar.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257708
Call No.: BIB 188233
Status: Available