McTavish Defining the Modern Museum

A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6054-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Cultural Spaces

Shedding light on many topics of current interest, especially the commodification and globalization of museums, this study makes a lively contribution to museum studies and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McTavish, Lianne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents List of Figures
Acknowledgements Introduction The Impossible Museum
Chapter One Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace
Chapter Two Learning to See: Vision, Visuality and Material Culture, 1862-1929
Chapter Three Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940
Chapter Four Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940
Chapter Five Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s
Conclusions Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McTavishLianne:
Lianne McTavish is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.