Research Catalog

Title

The contemporary museum : shaping museums for the global now / edited by Simon Knell.

Publication

• London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Knell, Simon J.

Description

xii, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose in the pursuit of tradition or in idealistic speculation about the future, the book asserts that this can only be found through an ongoing and proactive negotiation with the present: the contemporary. This volume is not concerned with any present, but with the peculiar circumstances of what it refers to as the 'global contemporary' - the sense of living in a globally connected world that is preoccupied with the contemporary. To situate the museum in this world of real and immediate need and action, beyond the reach of history, the book argues, is to empower it to challenge existing dogmas and inequalities and sweep aside old hierarchies. As a result, fundamental questions need to be asked about such things as the museum's relationship to global time and space, to systems and technologies of knowing, to 'the life well lived', to the movement and rights of people, and to the psychology, permanence and organisation of culture. Incorporating diverse viewpoints from around the world, The Contemporary Museum is a follow-up volume to Museum Revolutions."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Museums
• Museums > Social aspects
• Museum exhibits > Social aspects
• Museums and community

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: museums for the global contemporary / Simon Knell -- Modernisms: curating art's past in the global present / Simon Knell -- Indigenisation: reconceptualising museology / Conal McCarthy -- Islam: Islamic art, the Islamic world , and museums / John Reeve -- Xenophobia: museums, refugees and fear of the other / Andrea Witcomb -- Diplomacy: museums and international exhibitions / Da Kong -- Transience: curating ephemeral art / Stacy Boldrick -- Performances: contemporary encounters in historic spaces / Romina Delia -- Transhistoricism: using the past to critique the present / Annette Loeseke -- Pasts: authoring national histories in the contemporary city / Cintia Velázquez Marroni -- Disability: museums and our understandings of difference / Richard Sandell -- Contact: framing prostitution in a city museum / Annemarie de Wildt -- Small wins: tactics for the contemporary museum / Viviane Gosselin -- Anxiety: unease in the museum / Jennifer Walklate.

Call Number

JFF 19-363

ISBN

• 9780815364924
• 081536492X
• 0815364938
• 9780815364931

OCLC

1028893802

Title

The contemporary museum : shaping museums for the global now / edited by Simon Knell.

Publisher

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Knell, Simon J., editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-363