The birth of the museum : history, theory, politics
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The birth of the museum : history, theory, politics
(Culture : policies and politics)
Routledge, 1995
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-269) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.
Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture.
Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place.
This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government. For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to their reading list.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I History and Theory
- Chapter 1 The Formation of the Museum
- Chapter 2 The Exhibitionary Complex
- Chapter 3 The Political Rationality of the Museum
- Part II Policies and Politics
- Chapter 4 Museums and 'The People'
- Chapter 5 Out of Which Past?
- Chapter 6 Art And Theory
- Part III Technologies of Progress
- Chapter 7 Museums and Progress
- Chapter 8 The Shaping of Things to Come Expo '88
- Chapter 9 A Thousand and One Troubles
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