Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Hughes, Amanda Millay
• Wood, Carolyn H.

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

Subject

• Ackland Art Museum > Congresses
• Art and religion > Congresses
• Museum techniques > Congresses
• Art > Chapel Hill > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Includes papers from three colloquies held at the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2002-2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780974365633
• 0974365637

OCLC

• 441211221
• SCSB-10023237

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library