Display and Spectacle
Art History Special Issues
1. Auflage April 2008
200 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
Leading international scholars and younger researchers address issues such as museum display, collecting, the creation of visual spectacles, institutional histories, curatorial strategies, cultural exclusion and definitions of heritage.
In the ten years since Carol Duncan's Civilising Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (1995), public and scholarly interest in the way that art and the visual have been displayed and are presented has increased enormously. This volume brings the discussions up to date. Leading international scholars and younger researchers address issues such as museum display, collecting, the creation of visual spectacles, institutional histories, curatorial strategies, cultural exclusion and definitions of heritage. Exploring a variety of cultural contexts and historical periods, this benchmark collection addresses specific displays and notable objects alongside the politics of spectacle and questions of audience.
Artists' Pages: Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska.
Empathetic Vision: Looking At And With A Performative Byzantine Miniature: Robert S. Nelson.
A Faceless Society? Portraiture And The Politics Of Display In Eighteenth-Century Rome: Sabrina Norlander Eliasson.
Laying Siege To The Royal Academy: Wright Of Derby's View Of Gibraltar At Robins's Rooms, Covent Garden, April 1785: John Bonehill.
'Walking For Pleasure'? Bodies Of Display At The Manchester Art-Treasures Exhibition in 1857: Helen Rees Leahy.
Museum Studies Now: Andrew McClellan.
The Logic Of Spectacle c. 1970: Angus Lockyer.
Display at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1968-1975: Peter Funnell.
Narratives of Display at the National Gallery, London: Charles Saumarez Smith.
'Our Gods, Their Museums': The Contrary Careers Of India's Art Objects: Tapati Guha-Thakurta.
Notes on contributors.
Index.
Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham.
