ISBN13: | 9781138565326 |
ISBN10: | 1138565326 |
Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
Terjedelem: | 280 oldal |
Méret: | 234x156 mm |
Nyelv: | angol |
Illusztrációk: | 109 Illustrations, black & white; 109 Halftones, black & white |
700 |
The Museum of Babel
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The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is an enlightening, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum?s own past. Thurner argues that the ghosts of the museum?s past evoked in these exhibits maps museography?s future.
The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is
a thought?provoking, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum?s
own past. Museums everywhere now exhibit ?evocations? of their own pasts,
often in the form of refashioned, ancestral cabinets of curiosities. Moving beyond
discussions of ?the return to curiosity,? Thurner calls this retrospective trend the
metahistorical turn in museography. Providing engaging and lively meditations
on exhibits of the museal past in art, natural history, archaeology, and anthropology
museums, including the Prado, the Royal Cabinet of Natural History, the
Ashmolean, the British Museum, the Louvre, Coimbra?s Science Museum, Brazil?s
scorched Museu Nacional, Mexico?s Museum of Anthropology, Argentina?s Museo
de la Plata, and the Venice Art Biennale, Thurner argues that the ongoing metahistorical
turn in museography is exposing the museum?s true vocation, which is to be
a museum of itself, or metamuseum.
In a word, The Museum of Babel is a provocative meditation on the museum?s
true vocation. As such, it will be essential reading for museologists, curators,
museum professionals, historians and philosophers of art and science, anthropologists,
and students in an array of related fields, including museum studies, cultural
studies, global studies, history, archaeology, anthropology, design, and art history.
0 Antechamber; 1 Eden;2 Ark and Temple; 3 New Atlantis; 4 Old New World; 5 New Old World; 6 New Acropolis; 7 Babel