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"Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts" provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy and their adoring or combative publics. This book brings together for the first time a wide array of texts that mix contemporary analysis with historical documentation. It includes five sections(...)
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December 2003, Oxford
Museum studies : an anthology of contexts
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"Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts" provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy and their adoring or combative publics. This book brings together for the first time a wide array of texts that mix contemporary analysis with historical documentation. It includes five sections that highlight central themes in museum studies: issue-oriented contexts in museology; states of "nature"; the status of nations; history, memory and other locations; and arts, crafts and visitors. It also addresses the development of museums, the role of the museum in society, and issues central to contemporary museum studies opening with an introductory essay that situates museum studies in a truly interdisciplinary context and including an opening essay for each section that guides the reader through the selections. Finally, the anthology includes a bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject.
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Architecture et art, contenant et contenu, écrin et trésors: telle est l'approche que vous propose l'ouvrage Musées du Monde, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'architecture. Ce guide passionnant, qui raconte l'histoire des collections et des édifices qui les abritent, bénéficie du privilège de l'expertise de Giulia Camin, consultant au palais Grassi à Venise.
Musées du monde : chefs-d'oeuvre d'architecture
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Architecture et art, contenant et contenu, écrin et trésors: telle est l'approche que vous propose l'ouvrage Musées du Monde, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'architecture. Ce guide passionnant, qui raconte l'histoire des collections et des édifices qui les abritent, bénéficie du privilège de l'expertise de Giulia Camin, consultant au palais Grassi à Venise.
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For this site-specific work at Japan's National Art Museum in Osaka, Christian Philipp Müller tracked down 54 different types of chairs in use at the museum. He then presented them on a colorful, stair-step platform in chronological order by the date of design, and created a typology of usage. The book also includes photos of the chairs in use, product catalogs and(...)
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Portrait of the museum as a chair
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For this site-specific work at Japan's National Art Museum in Osaka, Christian Philipp Müller tracked down 54 different types of chairs in use at the museum. He then presented them on a colorful, stair-step platform in chronological order by the date of design, and created a typology of usage. The book also includes photos of the chairs in use, product catalogs and storage conditions. A fine commentary on the current fetish of the chair as design object, and our nostalgia for these familiar shapes memorialized as high-class consumer goods. With contribitions by Christian Philipp Müller, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Christian Witt-Döring and Bennett Simpson.
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June 2007
Cosmocaixa: the total museum
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Through an ongoing dialogue between museology and architecture, the director of CosmoCaixa, Jorge Wagensberg, and architects Robert and Esteve Terradas examine the conception and construction of the new Barcelona Science Museum, the CosmoCaixa. By designing a series of built elements, the architects negotiated the complex program demands of the museum and the topographic(...)
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October 2007, Barcelona
Cosmocaixa: the total museum
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Through an ongoing dialogue between museology and architecture, the director of CosmoCaixa, Jorge Wagensberg, and architects Robert and Esteve Terradas examine the conception and construction of the new Barcelona Science Museum, the CosmoCaixa. By designing a series of built elements, the architects negotiated the complex program demands of the museum and the topographic difficulties of the site. Through an ongoing dialogue between museology and architecture, the director of CosmoCaixa, Jorge Wagensberg, and architects Robert and Esteve Terradas examine the conception and construction of the new Barcelona Science Museum, the CosmoCaixa. By designing a series of built elements, the architects negotiated the complex program demands of the museum and the topographic difficulties of the site.
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A pavilion of cycles at Expo in Hanover. An interdisciplinary work involving architecture, scenography, graphics, sound, light, film, drama and an actual tornado, created by Atelier Brückner for the Expo 2000. Dual System Deutschland, a company which is responsible for the reuse and recycling of packaging in Germany commissioned the Stuttgart firm Atelier Brückner to(...)
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June 2002, Ludwigsburg
Experiment cyclebowl
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A pavilion of cycles at Expo in Hanover. An interdisciplinary work involving architecture, scenography, graphics, sound, light, film, drama and an actual tornado, created by Atelier Brückner for the Expo 2000. Dual System Deutschland, a company which is responsible for the reuse and recycling of packaging in Germany commissioned the Stuttgart firm Atelier Brückner to create a pavilion at the EXPO in Hanover which would reflect the company's vision of combining the product cycle with the environment and use of resources in a responsible way. The journey through this cycle is represented visually through the architecture and staging of the pavilion. Living plants, real objects, information, light and sound are brought together and provide an exciting backdrop for the dramatic highlight - a 25m high tornado which was generated every hour. This book shows primarily creative process leading to the final design and architecture of the Cyclebowl. Enhanced with technical details of the innovative facades, the publication is a fascinating documentation of architecture as a means of conveying ideas.
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Museums, society, inequality
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"Museums, society, inequality" explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum. It brings together diverse international perspectives from across the globe, which collectively seek to stimulate critical debate, to inform the work of practitioners and policy makers, and to advance recognition of the agency of museums.
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January 1900, London / New York
Museums, society, inequality
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"Museums, society, inequality" explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum. It brings together diverse international perspectives from across the globe, which collectively seek to stimulate critical debate, to inform the work of practitioners and policy makers, and to advance recognition of the agency of museums.
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January 1900, London / New York
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Photographer Annie Leibowitz collaborates with American Express on a portrait exhibition. Absolut Vodka engages artists for their advertisements. Philip Morris mounts an "Arts Against Hunger" campaign in partnership with prominent museums. Is it art or PR, and where is the line that separates the artistic from the corporate? According to Mark Rectanus, that line has(...)
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May 2002, Minneapolis
Culture incorporated : museums, artists, and corporate sponsorships
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Photographer Annie Leibowitz collaborates with American Express on a portrait exhibition. Absolut Vodka engages artists for their advertisements. Philip Morris mounts an "Arts Against Hunger" campaign in partnership with prominent museums. Is it art or PR, and where is the line that separates the artistic from the corporate? According to Mark Rectanus, that line has blurred. These mergers of art, business, and museums, he argues, are examples of the worldwide privatization of cultural funding. In Culture Incorporated, Rectanus calls for full disclosure of corporate involvement in cultural events and examines how corporations, art institutions, and foundations are reshaping the cultural terrain. In turn, he also shows how that ground is destabilized by artists subverting these same institutions to create a heightened awareness of critical alternatives. Rectanus exposes how sponsorship helps maintain social legitimation in a time when corporations are the target of significant criticism. He provides wide-ranging examples of artists and institutions grappling with corporate sponsorship, including artists' collaboration with sponsors, corporate sponsorship of museum exhibitions, festivals, and rock concerts, and cybersponsoring. Throughout, Rectanus analyzes the convergence of cultural institutions with global corporate politics and its influence on our culture and our communities. Mark W. Rectanus is professor of German at Iowa State University.
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"Prenant appui sur les politiques institutionnelles, l'auteur montre comment le musée virtuel résulte en fait d'une interprétation du support numérique qui en hypostasie la portée spectaculaire au lieu d'en favoriser l'appréhension documentaire. Le musée virtuel réaliserait ainsi la parfaite concrétisation des objectifs économiques et éducatifs du musée, en parfaite(...)
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January 2002, Paris
Le patrimoine à l'ère du document numérique : du musée virtuel au musée médiathèque
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"Prenant appui sur les politiques institutionnelles, l'auteur montre comment le musée virtuel résulte en fait d'une interprétation du support numérique qui en hypostasie la portée spectaculaire au lieu d'en favoriser l'appréhension documentaire. Le musée virtuel réaliserait ainsi la parfaite concrétisation des objectifs économiques et éducatifs du musée, en parfaite résonnance avec le régime d'industrialisation culturelle qui règle la fréquentation du patrimoine. Mais au-delà, c'est bien du devenir de l'institution muséale dont il est question. Plutôt que de prédire la disparition de l'institution au profit de son avatar virtuel, on choisit d'ancrer ici l'interrogation dans l'histoire des relations qui unissent l'oeuvre d'art et le musée, depuis deux siècles. L'extrême plasticité du musée est mise à jour : ne serait-il pas apte à conserver et légitimer les propositions d'un art numérique aussi délocalisé soit-il? Déjà rôdé à l'absorption d'oeuvres reproductibles, de traces ou d'intentions, le musée d'art contemporain déjoue perpétuellement sa fin prévisible. Cette fois-ci la métamorphose le porte du côté de la médiathèque. Le devenir du musée se nourrit d'une perception essentiellement documentaire du patrimoine artistique. Incorporé aux industries de la mémoire, le musée nous projette désormais dans un passé actualisé et un présent pérenne."
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January 2002, Paris
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L'avenir des musées
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Actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre les 23, 24, et 25 mars, 2000.
L'avenir des musées
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Actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre les 23, 24, et 25 mars, 2000.
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January 2002, Paris
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A summary of the Austrian contribution to the 7th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale di Venezia 2000, this book presents the projects, background information, a complete transcript of the discussion at the symposium, a selection of visitors' statements as well as biographies of the architects and experts that took part.
Area of tolerance for peace and freedom of the arts - against racism and xenophobia
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A summary of the Austrian contribution to the 7th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale di Venezia 2000, this book presents the projects, background information, a complete transcript of the discussion at the symposium, a selection of visitors' statements as well as biographies of the architects and experts that took part.
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January 1900, Vienna
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