Research Catalog

Title

Museums and memory / edited by Susan A. Crane.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Crane, Susan A.

Description

x, 257 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural sitings

Subjects

• Museums > Historiography
• Museums > Philosophy
• History > Philosophy
• Memory (Philosophy)
• Museum exhibits > Historiography
• Culture > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-252) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Of museums and memory / Susan A. Crane -- Archi(ve)textures of museology / Wolfgang Ernst -- A museum and its memory : the art of recovering history / Michael Fehr -- Curious cabinets and imaginary museums / Susan A. Crane -- Geoffrey Sonnabend's "obliscence : theories of forgetting and the problem of matter" / an encapsulation courtesy of the Museum of Jurassic Technology -- History and anti-history : photography exhibitions and Japanese national identity / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Realizing memory, transforming history : Euro/American/Indians / Diana Drake Wilson -- Global culture, modern heritage : re-membering the Chinese imperial collections / Tamara Hamlish -- The modern muses : Renaissance collecting and the cult of remembrance / Paula Findlen -- The quarrel of the ancients and moderns in the German museums / Suzanne Marchand -- The museum's discourse on art : the formation of curatorial art history in turn-of-the-century Berlin / Alexis Joachimides.

Call Number

JFE 00-12113

ISBN

• 0804735646 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804735654 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99089384

OCLC

43083448

Title

Museums and memory / edited by Susan A. Crane.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2000.

Series

Cultural sitings

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-252) and index.

Added Author

Crane, Susan A.

Research Call Number

JFE 00-12113