The Museal Turn
edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Douglas Brown and associate editor Christopher Herzog and Andrea Oberndorfer
Hardback (Published)
(October 2012)
ISBN: 9783825360979
6.06 x 9.21 inches
Price: $59.00
In stock
Drawing, inter alia, on debates about consumer cultures, narratology and performance studies, this book reveals the ‘museal turn’ to negotiate some of present-day culture’s most pressing dichotomies: loss and conservation, private and public, self and other, high and popular, individual and collective, learning and entertainment, authority and democracy.
‘The Museal Turn’ explores the dynamics of contemporary museum culture with regard to its ethics and aesthetics as well as its institutional, social and political frameworks. Aiming at a fuller understanding of both changes in museum culture and shifting interests in it, this collection of talks given at two interdisciplinary conferences held in Salzburg between 2009 and 2010 brings together the voices of practitioners and scholars from Europe, the USA and New Zealand. Grouped into five sections: “Museum Perspectives”, “Museum Visiting”, “Museum Narratives”, “Performing the Museum” and “Museum Practice”, 26 papers address the ‘museal turn’ in terms of the museum’s history and cultural diversity, its materiality and mediality, its representation in literature as well as its political and educational agenda. Drawing, inter alia, on debates about consumer cultures, narratology and performance studies, this book reveals the ‘museal turn’ to negotiate some of present-day culture’s most pressing dichotomies: loss and conservation, private and public, self and other, high and popular, individual and collective, learning and entertainment, authority and democracy.
- Edited by Douglas Brown
- Edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
- Associate editor Christopher Herzog
- Associate editor Andrea Oberndorfer
Other Titles in this Series
Kulturelle Dynamiken/Cultural Dynamics / Jenseits der Grenze
De-/Re-Lokalisierung u Hybridisierung
Volume 40
Die Betextung des offentlichen Raumes
Eine Studie zur Spezifik von Meso-Kommunikation am Beispiel von Bahnhofen, Innenstadten und Flughafen
Volume 26
Popular Theatre in Early Modern England, Germany and Italy (1570-1640)
A Study in Incultural Theatricality with an Analysis of 'Engelische Comedien und Tragedien' (1620)
Volume 38
Kulturelle Dynamiken/Cultural Dynamics / Kreativitat – Schopferischer Wille und (Uber-)Lebensstrategie
Volume 41
‘Those Gay Days of Wickedness and Wit’
The Restoration Period in Popular Historiographies (18th-21st Centuries)
Volume 35
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