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A place for meaning : art, faith, and museum culture : learning from the Five Faiths Project at the Ackland Art Museum
- Title
- A place for meaning : art, faith, and museum culture : learning from the Five Faiths Project at the Ackland Art Museum / Amanda Millay Hughes, Carolyn H. Wood.
- Author
- Ackland Art Museum.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, c2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Request in advance | JQE 10-358 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvii, 249 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Art, faith, and museum culture : learning from the Five Faiths Project at the Ackland Art Museum
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes papers from three colloquies held at the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2002-2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Emily S. Kass -- Preface / Gerald D. Bolas -- Five Faiths project chronology -- Introduction -- How to read this book -- Colloquy one : sacred ground and common ground. Overview ; Religious liberty in the museum / Charles Haynes ; Curating the sacral / Meera S. Viswanathan ; Museum as metaphor in a pluralistic society / Charles D. Orzech ; Museum values / Ruth Slavin ; Case study 1 : mass and masterpiece ; Case study 2 : word and worship -- Colloquy two : considering the lives of sacred images. Overview ; The dancing Shiva of Shivapurim / Richard H. Davis ; Defining sacred universals and particular / Patrice Brodeur ; Teaching tool 1 : exploring the limits and potentials ; Label writing exercise ; Case study 1 : Madonna and child with saints ; Case study 2 : book of blessing ; Case study 3 : spice box ; Case study 4 : Shiva Linga ; Case study 5 : Burmese Buddha -- Colloquy three : a place for meaning : art, faith, and museum culture. Overview ; Panel discussion transcript -- Conclusions -- Tools for teaching and learning. Consider your responses / Ray Williams ; Five object exercises / David Carr ; How to talk about Hinduism ; How to talk about Judaism ; How to talk about Buddhism ; How to talk about Christianity ; How to talk about Islam ; Compare and contrast with timeline ; Approaching objects -- The Five Faiths project in 100 words or more : parting thoughts from colloquy participants.
- Call Number
- JQE 10-358
- ISBN
- 9780974365633
- 0974365637
- OCLC
- 441211221
- Author
- Ackland Art Museum.
- Title
- A place for meaning : art, faith, and museum culture : learning from the Five Faiths Project at the Ackland Art Museum / Amanda Millay Hughes, Carolyn H. Wood.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Hughes, Amanda Millay.Wood, Carolyn H.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 10-358